Sonny Rollins Quotes

I thrive on having support around me, even if they are not actively doing something. I feel happier, more confident.

With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.

I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

Although I have fantastic connections, I didn't know as a child what feeling secure meant.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

I've always had people around me who will love me for me, regardless of whether the football went well or if I'd have had to go down a different route. I've always felt that no matter where I've been or what I've been doing, I've always had that to fall back on, which is comforting.

Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.

When I was growing up, nobody was really supporting me, especially in L.A.

I grew up without a television, so when I went to L.A., it was sort of, you know, a lot to take in, but it actually suited me more than where I was from, so I sort of had that 'home away from home' feeling, and L.A. is definitely home now.

I have my family, my loved ones and they love me for who I am.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

I want a guy who can take care of me. He should be rock solid and someone I can depend on.

My sister-in-law, my mother, grandmother, and the entire family have been the biggest support for me.

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

My faith, my family, my friends - that's where I get my strength.

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

I guess, at a club, you feel supported. Sometimes, with the national team, it hasn't always felt that way.

England, through good times or bad, was the only place I wanted to be.

I found a place in Boston, a home in Boston, and I'm pretty happy here.