Quotes About Solitude

If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain ways, it's more restful than home: no Internet, no phones, no interruptions.

I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.

One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I'll do it alone in my apartment. You can't have a bad day after that.

When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

I kind of love walking around with something nobody else knows about in my back pocket.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out.

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

I'm off to sit on a cliff.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.