Kristian Bush Quotes

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

I don't like being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

I think people don't want be alone. Ultimately, we want to feel connected. We want to feel like there is someone who actually sees us in the world. That's the big thing: to be seen. How many people actually feel seen?

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.