Quotes About Solitude

Silence is the sound of eternity.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

When I am on my own, I get nervous and have butterflies.

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

I barely leave my cage, my house.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

I'd be a really boring person to have cameras around all day.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

I find the older I get - carrying this thing called fame - the more I close myself off. That's what you do.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

A cat only has itself.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

I'm not a big celebration person, I don't need a big party. I just want to hang.

I don't like being a celebrity.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

I had nothing in my cell. Most of the time I recited the Quran. The rest of the time I was speaking to myself and thinking about my life and the worst-case scenarios that could happen to me.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.