Quotes About Connection

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

In this larger conversation about diversity, we want to really show that we're all the same. We are all experiencing the same stories.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?

I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

People always ask you, 'Are you like brother and sister? Are you like a married couple?' It's really original and it can't really be explained.

When I took my kids to see the house that we're buying I took them in the car to the estate I grew up on. I got the kids out of the car and explained that this is where they're from.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.

It was really important to me to explore how disparate people are connected.