MO Quotes

I try to stay away from the Internet.

I came off Snapchat. I was done with it... I think I spent too much time on it.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.

There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.

Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.

It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being on our phones and tablets.

We haven't evolved as loners, we need each other. It's easy to believe in the illusion of technology bringing us closer together. But if you were to protest that and say, 'I'm not going to use a smartphone, I'm not going to use email, I'm not going to use social media,' it's like you're no longer a part of humanity.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

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

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

I don't read Twitter.

The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen.