Quotes About Connection

I sign up whatever live shows I get simply because every gig is a chance to reach out directly to the audience. When it comes to gigs, I try mixing personal picks with what the audience demands.

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.

There's something so intimate about a picnic with your guy.

I met Snoop through church when we was, like, 13 or 14. You know, they had them little church picnics and basketball games, and that's where I got to know him.

When I make a picture, I make love.

It's nuts to me that people want to take a picture with me or want to tell me a story about their family. If they want to give it to me, I'll always take it. It's never intrusive.

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

When I was a kid, I got to meet Shawn Michaels at the Continental Airlines Arena, and I showed Shawn that picture.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

When I do shows, I take pictures and make the fans feel like family. All of that really matters. That's the cheat code if you ain't got a hit.

People take secret pictures of me... it fries my brain. I'm just a bloke, Just come and talk to me, I'd love to talk to you.

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Everyone in my life who is important, they feed me humble pie.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.