Jamie xx Quotes

I like being by myself.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

I liked roaming around by myself.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I love being alone.

I have learnt to enjoy my own company because I have lived alone many years.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.