Jermain Defoe Quotes

I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

I'm talking about personal stuff so I think people are on my side.

I didn't know many people in London and became depressed, ending up in therapy. One day, the therapist called me Josh instead of Jacob, and I was mortified. I was telling this woman things I'd never told anyone, and she didn't even know my name.

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can't find another person, get a journal. I didn't say make a video on Snapchat. It's for you, not anyone else.

When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.

I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.

I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

I am a human being. I have anxiety. I have doubts. And I'm not afraid to put it out there.