Jarvis Cocker Quotes

When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.

I'm shy in my personal life.

You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

I'm not an introvert. I'm media shy.

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 was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

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

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

I used to be the shy kid who would barely raise her hand or speak her mind.

I'm kind of shy when it comes to women, so I don't really approach them. I'll just admire them from afar, and if they happen to say something to me, then maybe I'll find the courage to say something.

When I was in high school, I tried too hard to be cool and to impress people, but playing all these different characters has helped me find myself again.

In the beginning, people watched me to hate on me. They thought Miranda was a real person. People just couldn't understand why this strange girl was so confident. And then slowly, I started getting fans.

I find it difficult to talk about myself. I'm just shy.

In the first place, I was never a very outgoing, public person. That was a facade.

I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!

Networks are operating from a fear base where it's all about playing the popularity game.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.