Quotes About Connection

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.

I play shows sometimes, and if everything's connecting, I start blabbing to the audience about anything. Between songs, talking about things in my personal life, or whatever. But there are other situations where I feel a little closed-off. It's really kind of a day-to-day thing.

I've always been very comfortable with me and the people I work with, and my family have always been very plugged into who I am with my personal life.

I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

My album, 'No Shame,' will give my fans an extremely real and heartfelt experience of what I have been going through in my personal life.

Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!

All things come down to your personal relationships.

That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.

Washington is a very complicated city. You have to work the personal relationships. They are politicians, they are congressmen, they are senators, but they are human beings. And for them to get to know you on a personal level really, really makes the difference.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

Personal relationships become really hard when you're away from home and long-distance.

There's nothing better than a personal story.

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.

I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.

Ramy' is based on a lot of personal things, and it's interesting to see how many people feel like it's their story. And how many people view it as this democratic thing that should represent them.

Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.