We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

I like singer-songwriters and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.