Feist Quotes

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

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

I live wherever I happen to be.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

I moved schools seven or eight times, but I never thought of it as a problem. I didn't become attached to people.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

I just want pieces of the world.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.