Nellie McKay Quotes

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right.

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

I'm not aggressive enough.

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.

When people compliment me, I don't put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it's hard.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

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

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

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.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.