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I just feel out of this world sometimes.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.