Jack Garratt Quotes

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

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be 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.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I just like doing things from my own head.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

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 grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

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

I am a loner so I prefer traveling alone.

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.