Quotes About Solitude

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.

Sometimes I want to bury myself in bed, and I don't want anyone to know anything about me, and I don't want anyone to judge me.

I'm somewhat in my own cloud.

I've always been somewhat of a loner. I seem to take more alone time that the average person.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

With independent music sometimes you are able to bring yourself out and your persona out, 'Tanhaai' was that song for me.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

My favorite songwriters are all solo artists.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

We have a camp up in the Adirondacks with no electricity, and I find that it's one of the most fertile places for me as far as songwriting because there isn't much to do.

'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

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

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

I've never really sought out publicity.