Carly Simon - you are so vain

Small talk haters take further consolation from the fact that you are in star-studded company. Fear of small talk and stage fright are the same thing. The butterflies you feel in your stomach when you are in a roomful of strangers flutter' round the tummies of top performers. Pablo Casals complained of lifelong stage fright. Carly Simon curtailed live performances because of it. A friend of mine who worked with Neil Diamond said he insisted the words to "Song Sung Blue", a tune he'd been crooning for forty years, be displayed on his teleprompter, lest fear freeze him into forgetfulness.