Johnny Marr Quotes

I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little universe in the studio, and that's why all of those musicians who made a living in the Nashville music scene loved coming over to my place so much.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

All we ask is to be let alone.

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

I like my space.

I'd rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

Sometimes you just need your privacy.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.