Quotes About Solitude

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

An hour a week for yourself is really important - have a massage, a facial or even go for a walk alone in the park.

Id been touring in Japan and Australia and was due to play in America when Covid struck. I couldnt get back to England for a whole week, so I ended up spending it in Miami on my own.

My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.

I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

I think what I'm most proud of about myself away from the pool, is being OK on my own.

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

From the age of 17, I lived the life of a hermit and dedicated myself to gym life, first in the South Bronx and then back in England. I was in a bubble and I bypassed a lot of popular culture.

When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

I work in a very contained environment, usually.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I was in a convent for a year.