Cat Power Quotes

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

I don't have any blonde friends.

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.

I'm never in the same place for too long, and you make the most amazing friends on one set, and then you go to another, and you start all over again, and it's lonely sometimes.

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.

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you're traveling from movie set to movie set. So I've never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

I've always been pretty nomadic.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.

Where are all our friends?

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

I work a lot, so I don't really live anywhere for very long periods of time.

We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of real friends, and the people I was friends with, I've grown apart from - they were frenemies more than anything.

I'm based in San Francisco, although I don't usually stay long in one place because we are always moving, we are always on the road. So most of the time, we stay in hotels.

I'm an army brat - so I grew up traveling every two to four years.

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

I have very few friends.