Meg Rosoff Quotes

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

I'm not what I make.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.