I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.
I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.
I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
I just don't have that natural instinct to be able to let my guard down and start speaking to people. I never have - I've always been a bit socially awkward, even with people I've known for a long time.
I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people.
When you are shy, you live a lot in your own head.
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if they're by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.
