Tinashe Quotes

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

Solitude is un-American.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

A man by himself is in bad company.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.