Paul Theroux Quotes

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

What I've realised is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that?

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

I don't know how to let loose when I'm dancing to the music and the people that made the music are watching me. I've never felt so much pressure in my life.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

I just want to be quiet wherever I go, not seeing people, not facing more pressure, because every time now I go home, I will have so many people waiting for me.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the people circulating around me and a lot of people know me - it kind of feels like a heavy weight sometimes.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV.

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.