I am not a people person. It's not that I am shy, but I am more comfortable in an atmosphere of one-on-one. I hate crowds and parties.
I'm not the kind of person who enjoys big crowds very much.
I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.
I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.
I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
I like dancing but not in crowded clubs. I would rather dance alone than go to a club.
I hate going out and being in crowds or being in clubs. I can't deal with it, and I don't like it; I've never liked it.
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
If I had moved to Tokyo, I might even have become a completely different person... although, ever since the start, I've never wanted to move to Tokyo. I just can't handle there being so many people.
Even when I go to a salad bar, I need to feel like I'm one of the first people there.
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.
I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties and have people around me. And now I find I am much more satisfied seeing people one-on-one. I avoid crowds, and I get really plagued by people as if they are bees or something. I am talking about my friends. I can only handle them one at a time.
London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."
As of late, I am more of a homebody. I like having people over. You can smoke in the apartment. I'm just not into going out so much. The crowd is getting younger and younger.
Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world.
I don't like big events and crowded areas. I'm almost a curmudgeonly old man in that aspect. I've been like that forever.
When I'm onstage, I feel a lot of love. But I don't like crowds and random spectators.
Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.
I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
I'm not fond of crowds. I'm no jittery neurotic, but I don't really want to be surrounded by a lot of people if I have a choice.
I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.
I hate people but I love gatherings.
I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.
