Patti Scialfa Quotes

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.

Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way.

It wasn't easy for me to socialize with other kids when I got back from touring. I felt different. Like we all do, but I didn't feel like I got all the codes. I was a little awkward.

It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about.

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

I was an awkward kid.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

I felt uncomfortable in cliques.

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.