Quotes About Insecurity

I was always the shy one around, I wouldn't sing even in family gatherings.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I'll probably be the same. I'll still think I'm not the greatest singer I can be.

When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

I don't know why, but I'm more intimidated by sharing my singing than just performing as an actress.

I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn't really date the dude with the saxophone.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

I still doubt myself every single day.

I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

My height does help me. I can hide a multitude of sins in my height.

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.