Privacy Quotes

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away.

I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. [...] After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

A career is born in public-talent in privacy.

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.