Quotes About Connection

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I've got the brain of a teenager anyway.

I grew up in the '70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.

I remember being a teenager and feeling like I could talk to anyone anywhere about anything.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

Parents are almost fearful of disciplining their children. They are scared they are going to lose the connection with them when they are teenagers or adults.

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

I'm pretty normal. That's why I feel like I hope most teenagers can relate.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I'll remind them when they're teenagers.

I write with teenagers in mind.

I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts.

There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.