Jack Garratt Quotes

I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was also part of the drama group, which was filled with actors and writers and wasn't really accepted by the rest of the school.

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.

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird.

I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they're your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.

I had a band and I didn't go to high school, all my friends were older than me. It was pretty cool to have such a focus at that age, but also it alienated me from a lot of people my age. So I felt pretty lonely and I didn't really have many friends when I was a kid.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

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

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

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

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.