Walker Hayes Quotes

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

When I was growing up, I wasn't particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I'd never reach my potential. Even in sports, I'd only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.

I think all my videos suck.

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

I'm outgoing when I have to be, but usually, I'm kinda shy. I always think people don't want to talk to me. Some people might take that as being stuck-up, but I'm just shy.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.