Jeff Buckley Quotes

I felt like a dork growing up.

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn't look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

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 don't consider myself sexy. I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual.

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.

When I was a kid, I didn't have any girlfriends. I was a very nerdy-type dude. Believe me, being a ham does not turn girls on.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.