Cass McCombs Quotes

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

I'm going to get criticism in the future, I've had criticism in the past. Honestly, I genuinely don't care.

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.

When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

No vice is so bad as advice.

It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

Very ugly things were said about me.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.

Think of any name. I’ve been called it in these letters.

[Referring to Herbert Hoover:] That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years—all of it bad.

I don't ever read chat rooms, because if you've got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.