“But I don't think I'll ever completely shake the low self-esteem that ...” — Rhod Gilbert Quote

“But I don't think I'll ever completely shake the low self-esteem that robs me of the ability to go up to someone new and chat without feeling I'm being rude and intruding.”

“I did one gig in a French youth club. I was in front of the mic - it was quite weird. There were only about nine people in the audience - nine French youths staring at me and this other guy who was with me. I don't think they quite knew what we were trying to do.”

“The only thing that stops me doing the teaching is that there's so much stress involved. And there shouldn't be. It's the most wonderful, inspirational job on the planet from what I saw. I loved it. Teachers, we should be molly-coddling them. Looking after them. Nurturing them.”

“My routine prior to a big game is the same for any other match. Eat, sleep, chat with teammates during the day, and then, as the match draws near, I listen to my music on the trip to the stadium and zone in.”

“When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.”

“I would never think of asking a girl out on the High Street or the disco or at school. But on the ski slope, I would chat to all the girls.”