Quotes About Connection

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

Respect the person you're with. My philosophy is, if I'm not happier when I'm with you, then there's no reason for me to be with you. I'm happy on my own.

It's no secret that I love the country, and Japan has always felt like a second home to me.

It's no secret that I have, at best, a strained and awkward relationship with my dad. The Wasserman family - my mom, my sister, Lew and Edie - raised me. They are the people I define as my family.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.

I've been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it all ain't no secret anymore. Everyone knows how you feel.

I think it's obviously no secret that my buddy is Franck Ribery.

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

In music, there is no country; there is no time.

I'm not into cliches like 'no time' for love. If I find the right person, I'll definitely find time.

I can break the ice with people in no time. I think I can even make a wall talk to me!

There are no words to describe the eternal bond that I share with my daughter. Everything in my life is more special because she is a part of my life. Noelle motivates me daily to push myself to my highest standard, and to be the best person that I can be.

I'm nobody, who are you?

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

There's a moment in every romantic comedy when a person sees something in someone else that nobody else sees.

I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.

I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact.

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.