Sarah McLachlan Quotes

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

I wasn't the class nerd, but I was weird. I could tell long stories and be funny, but I couldn't do sports. And I was always terrified of being held back.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

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

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they said, 'They're just jealous because you're beautiful and talented.' It was probably one of the worst things they could have told me, because I became self-conscious.

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

I wasn't even popular at school.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.