Quotes About Privacy

The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door and remove oneself, put oneself in parentheses, as it were, from the rest of humanity. It is a place for reading and thinking, where one's mind wanders easily, where time seems temporarily suspended.

and Tommy. Not to my teachers. Not to Mom. And certainly not to Dad. My biggest

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

I am not a huge fan of being around people all the time. I really like being able to leave people.

I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything that's written about me whether positive or negative.

The first time my mom found condoms in my room, she literally started crying hysterically.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

Nobody wants to know what I'm doing 24 hours a day, they'd be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I'm doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans.

We are living in a generation where people 'in love' are free to touch each other's private parts but are not allowed to touch each other's phones because they are private.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.

To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

Every Single Number on the Clock knows all my Secrets.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.