Quotes About Solitude

I didn't really gig my way in. I was just in my bedroom writing songs for so long.

Sometimes it's nice when you go out on the road, and you come back, and your girlfriend's left you. You have complete freedom at that point.

My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.

I know that I'm glad to be divorced and on my own.

My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however.

I'm not a social guy. I don't like the constant media glare on everything I do.

I just felt like I needed an opportunity to be on my own. I knew that once I got that moment, the 'Glow' was what I wanted to do. That's who I was.

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.

My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.

I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I'm ready to go home, and I'm very comfortable alone.

When I'm working in theatre I never go to the bar with the other actors; I go home and think about what I did wrong.

A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.

It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.

I think everyone is lonely whether you are in a good marriage or a bad marriage somewhere down the line you become lonely, and to get rid of that loneliness you have to try really hard.

Sometimes when you're an artist, you need to be in your own head; you need to stay in it to be able to get to a good place.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

Time slows down in libraries in a good way.

La paura della morte si dileguò e le subentrò una meravigliosa indifferenza. Egli si distese come per dormire. Il cielo gemmato della notte d'agosto stava immobile sopra di lui. Fra i miliardi di stelle nessuna baluginava. Stefano era solo nel mondo e col mondo.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

So we sit there together the mountain and me, Li Po said, until only the mountain remains.