Wayward Quotes

“What was I doing, walking these long roads every day, with trucks hurtling by our tiny wagon, and my dog in danger? If anybody had asked me, I would not have known what to say. I'm just leaving London never to return, I would maybe have said. I'm going to learn how to make my own kind of life away from the madness of war and injustice - even if the madness is in me and the war has always been playing out in my head.”
― Vashti Bunyan, Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

“Months of walking the road and living on the ground had given me a way of looking at the world around me which from here might seem childlike, I do know that.

It wasn't that the hills and road and trees became like people in my head, but more that I felt no different to them and saw them all as living and being, possessing some kind of relation to each other - and to me.

Outside I had become a part of my surroundings rather than a player within them. That beetles should have as much of a right to be here as I do had always been obvious to me, but actually living in the same place as them had an effect. It made me hesitate, move them carefully from where I wanted to sit down.”
― Vashti Bunyan, Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

“When my father's younger brother Jim was demobbed from the war, he helped to build up the farm with a new cowshed and a barn for the hay. My first memories are of the enormous backsides of the cows, the collecting of bantam eggs and the warm safety of the kitchen where Grandma Bunyan baked bread in the big black cast-iron cooking range, and churned the butter. I always imagined this was her way of life, only later realising that she was recreating scenes from her own childhood - as I would go on to do from these moments in mine.”
― Vashti Bunyan, Wayward: Just Another Life to Live