personal escape Quotes

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I'm not talking to anyone; I'm not managing anything. It's just, like, a time when I can listen to music.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

It's like Richard Petty always said, 'Racing isn't the job. That's where we get away from our job.' That's where we go out and have fun and get away from the madness. No one can bother you in there. There's no phones, no interviews - it's just you, driving.

I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Dancing has always been my comfort zone.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default 'getaway' city.

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?