Quotes About Connection

I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.

Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.

Over the years, I have attended comic book conventions and met people that are die-hard fans; they'll come up and say, 'Clue' is my favorite movie of all time.' It has definitely resonated in some way with people and just continued to build up over the years considerably.

My favorite movie would have to be 'Love Actually.'

My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that's how you bring them in. That's my favorite part of the business.

Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

It's my favorite thing to do: meeting the people who support me and make everything possible.

My family and my closest friends are my favorite things about being home.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

One of my favorite things is to have a three-hour conversation over coffee with someone.

I think that's probably one of my favorite things - learning and creating incredible relationships and making mistakes and being responsible for that.

One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look at another director, and they feel the same thing you feel.

One of my favorite things to do is play guitar with my dad, who taught me.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

From the minute I became aware of Jimmie Vaughan and his playing, he was one of my very favorites. So I made it my business to meet him and become friends with him - to work with him and record some of his material.

Michael Irvin was one of my favorites.

I would love to be in quarantine with someone like Quinny de Kock. He is one of my favourite people in the world.

I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.

I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.