Cat Stevens Quotes

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.

I play guitar, so that's kind of my outlet, but its just something I want to keep for myself.

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

Rock has the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room.

Music is always with me and I don't need a special space for it.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so closed, wanting to do it exactly like I had it in my head, because this would be the only place that was superpersonal.

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's the most exciting place because it's going on for you, and you're in that relationship. In that sense, it's like being with a lover. Nobody else can intrude on that space. It's the two of you. It's your own world.

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

Sometimes you just need your privacy.

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

I’m good when I’m alone. I’m comfortable when I’m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included.