Kyle Quotes

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

I don't have any blonde friends.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

I can't dance at all by myself.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.

In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.

Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.

Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.

It must be very daunting being an individual sportsman.

I think actually performing on stage when everyone's facing you and you're one person facing them, that is quite a lonely thing in a strange way. You have to be quite insular from everybody else, you've got thousands of people staring at you and you're just on your own.

It's quite a feeling to be all alone on the stage!

Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.