Rodney Crowell Quotes

I was never cool as a kid.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

You don't have to be the cool party guy, getting everyone's attention.

I've never been cool.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

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.

I don't mind not being cool.

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.

I could never dream of being cool.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of 'Junk,' which doesn't do a lot for one's self-esteem.