Willard Scott Quotes

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

I'm claustrophobic.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

I'm afraid of people, in a way.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

You cannot escape anxiety … but I have faith that you will rise above your fears.

I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.

I have social anxiety.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.

I have a major phobia of height and water.

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

What an incredible drug fear is.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.