Alessia Cara Quotes

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.

I've never been all that comfortable in real life.

I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not brilliant on the boyfriend front later. Because when I went to university, it was definitely like meeting a new species of people. Suddenly, at age 19, I was thinking: 'Can you speak to these people?' I was very, very nervous.

People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.

I never have anything to talk about.

I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.

I was actually a really sort of nervous, shy kid. In high school, it was one of those things where I wasn't popular or a loser; I just don't think many people really knew who I was.

I remember being chronically shy. I came out of my shell a bit when I went to university, but I'm still fairly shy in company.

I don't do well in social environments.

I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying... I was not someone to whom it came easily to be charming.

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

It takes me a while to come out of myself and get to know people.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.