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When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.