Gareth Gates Quotes

I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

Everyone fears rejection.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

It's tough being me.

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I will always have a stutter.