Daniel Caesar Quotes

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way.

The military was appealing because I could just get away and do my own thing. I could have a roof over my head, be fed, and with the little bit of money I got, I could start to build me own life as I wanted to.

If I go to the city, I'm happy that I'm free, that nobody knows who I am. I guess we have done a good job there in keeping the private life really private.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.