Quotes About Connection

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

There's something about the waltz in particular, where one person leads and the other follows, that helps you get in tune with each other.

If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

Glasgow is a strange place. If you don't have someone close to you looking out for you, your head will wander.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

As I'm writing a song, I focus on the music and try not to let my mind wander too much, but if I do think of any visual moments or references that I think would connect nicely, I'll make a note of it.

With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

I had 20,000 followers and I treasured that. People'd say, 'Oh that's nothing.' I said, 'What are you crazy? That's 20,000 people that wanna hear what I gotta say!'

Sometimes you just vibe with people. Some people have great energy, and you click with them, and you just wanna have a good time.

I don't get asked this much - 'Would you ever wanna see your father again?' And the answer there is that I would like to see him again.

I feel like so much of what we give on stage is a musical gift to our fans, but we also wanna bring more depth to our shows if we can and do something empowering.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

I'm happy that as many people who wanna listen to us can listen to us.

I wanna do a song with Adele! Nobody gets Adele as a feature, so maybe I can. I hope she knows who I am!

Everybody the same: We all got problems. We all want to be loved. We all wanna be happy.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

I just wanna keep Yachty forever, just take him home with me.

I don't wanna say I'm anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I'm a unifying force. I'm there to show everybody that we're all the exact same.

I wanna meet Meryl Streep, so she can be my mama. I want Meryl Streep to be my mom in a movie.

It kills my vibe when cats don't wanna cuddle!