Quotes About Insecurity

I'm not sure my own family liked me at Duke.

They see a blooper here and there, and they just think, 'Oh, he's dumb.' I mean, what can I do? I can't 'at' everyone on Twitter and tell them I'm not dumb. Because that looks dumb.

I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.

I felt I had to earn my way. I had nobody to support me.

My ears are too big.

As the years have gone by, I have become more confident, but I'm still not completely at ease with myself.

I can't live off the ego.

I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

Oh, I'm not a very good singer, and that's 'cause I was always embarrassed about my singing.

I think sometimes my skin has been so bad I was embarrassed to seek help.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I mean, autographs are so funny. I don't think it's good to encourage that sort of thing. Why do people want to have an autograph? What does it do for you?

For me, I have trouble working with people just because I sort of have trust issues when it comes to creative endeavors.

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

The entertainment thing - you're there to entertain, it's not about you - I get that, but for a while I lost my opinion.