Andrew W.K. Quotes

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the lights go down, you disappear. If you have esteem issues, suddenly you're in a void where nobody can see you. You are just by yourself in that darkness, and your loneliness is cured.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Being alone is very difficult.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

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

I don't like being alone.