Jacob Artist Quotes

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.

The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I've never been cool.

I didn't know how to be cool. I didn't know how to have swag.

Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

I was an awkward kid.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.