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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.

— Kara DioGuardi

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.

— Jacob Whitesides

I was always so scared to sing in front of people. That was kind of my weird thing.

— Alessia Cara

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

— David Bowie

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

— James Nesbitt

I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.

— Charlie Puth

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.

— Tom Lenk

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

— Kara DioGuardi

The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

— Marla Sokoloff

I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

— Lee DeWyze

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

— Oscar Isaac