Quotes About Connection

People come to my concerts from all walks of life. I tried to break barriers down.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could entertain a brick wall.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

We are not a typical family that goes for a movie on Sunday or has dinner together every night. But we are strong as the Great Wall of China. Nothing can stop us from supporting one another and enduring each other's pain as well.

It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you and someone else where something else can't. When music comes along, it just opens your heart a little more.

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful.

With 'Running Scared,' I originally wanted to do a piece that was going to be about a couple, and the whole thing would be based on wall posts on Facebook. So the idea started there.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by 'The Luckiest' by Ben Folds.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

Not many people know that I am a Bengali actually.

Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Karan Patel is my brother and my best friend for life.

If she wasn't my mother, I'd want her to be my best friend.

I don't really have a best friend.