Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day year after year alone.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

As far as loneliness I feel Los Angeles and its layout having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

It doesn't matter about money having it not having it. Or having clothes or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I envy the sensibility in Europe appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.