Quotes About Isolation

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

I'm getting better, but I used to pull away from emotion, and from people.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the things I really wanted to do.

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

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.

Girl-wise, I never got the girl. Because of my mother and our economy, I never had clothes. And I never - like I said - dated. I didn't date at all. I was never a guy who had girlfriends.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

I ended up losing weight and going through a lot of stuff, but yeah, that is so much of my life and my past. I'm glad that I went through that because I don't think I would be where I am now if I hadn't gone through it. It spills over in most of my love for movies and being alone.

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

It often happens that you leave your house in the dark, shoot on a sound stage without natural lighting, and then go home in the dark. A whole week can go past, and it can feel like 12 hours.

I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.