Quotes About Solitude

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

I don't go to clubs.

I don't hang out. I don't go to clubs, ever. I don't party.

I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!

I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.

I don't like collaborating too much.

I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.

Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

Better be alone than in bad company.

I'm good at my own company.

I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, art, everything. I read a book alone, so why wouldn't I listen to music alone?

The condition of my personal workspace is my own business, as I see it.

I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

I'm not fond of crowds. I'm no jittery neurotic, but I don't really want to be surrounded by a lot of people if I have a choice.