Kimbra Quotes

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

I just love my privacy.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.