I have an internal protectiveness where it’s like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I’m like, It could happen and I’m okay, I’m prepared.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

I’m vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you’d get any feedback.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.