Abigail Washburn Quotes

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

Remember we're all in this alone.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I like my life alone.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

I don't care about a social life.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

Sometimes, when we're on tour, I'll find an empty room or a corner and I'll just sing. It heals something in me, be it some kind of isolation or loneliness. It's really quite beautiful that singing can do that.

All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.