Bill Clegg Quotes

I’ve never taken a selfie. In my whole life, I don’t always love cameras in phones. There are time it feels very intrusive, especially when I’m with my children.

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

I share a lot of my life with everybody.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion.

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

When I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't really able to have access to people other than like, my family, so being able to just have that access to people and technology to really change the world is incredible.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.

It's hard to expose your personal life publicly, and everyone has an opinion.

I grew up in a small town.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don't feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don't get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It's not really for me.