Bob Mould Quotes

Even when I wrap my work and come home or whatever it is I try to do, I can identify with that feeling of being a little outside, of struggling to get back into normality.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

If I didn't have a family, I don't know that I would never not be in a hotel room working.

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Having money hasn't made me any happier. There are some negatives associated with it too, like having to be away from home when you don't want to be.

It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.