Quotes About Connection

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

Television takes you to an altogether different audience and directly to people's living room. On television, I'm being myself, and that's why people relate to me more.

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.

I love talking directly to the fans.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

It's nice to hear from fans directly.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

Pop's not a dirty word to me.

Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.

You can have a great, deep connection with somebody and still disagree with their actions.

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.

When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.