I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn’t really have a childhood – I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
When something’s painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it’s nothing but bad stuff? Shane Koyczan Read Quote
For me, poetry was… the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it’s happened, the more people have come forward, I’ve really realized that we’re all kind of going through the same thing at the same time. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone’s life. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you’re not careful someday somebody’s going to break it. Take it from me, under the bed is not a good hiding spot. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there’s a theatre element, a dramatic element. It’s right up my alley. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED. Shane Koyczan Read Quote
