Lisa Unger Quotes

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

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

I used to love writing in my journal.

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

I write to feel alone.

I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

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

Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson