I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.
I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.
I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.
Don't go public before you can be public.
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.