I'm not to the point where I need to shut myself off from people, unless I feel like I need to, but I don't force myself to deal with people.
All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
Angel away yeah strange in a way Maybe that is why I chase strangers away
My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you.
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
I don't interact with people much.
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.
What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.
I didn't party. I didn't go out. I didn't really hang out with friends as much as other guys.
I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.
The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
