Quotes About Connection

Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

In my family, and especially when I go back to China, it's always like, prepare your stomach, because it's the way that they express love.

Learn to cook. The way to someone's heart is through their stomach, whether for a friend or a significant other.

For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach - like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one's soul needs regular prayer.

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

I know what Stone Island means to a lot of people in England and Europe.

When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I'm older - I'm in my early 50s - so you'll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

I'm big into the Stone Roses.

Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.

We're closer friends in Stone Sour than I am with the guys in Slipknot and that makes life a lot easier. I'm not trying to take anything away from Slipknot.

Roger Stone is one of my personal heroes.

My mom and I, we have two movies that we watch every year. We watch 'The Family Stone' and we watch 'The Holiday' and that's kind of our thing. We may watch them twice. I always know it's Christmas when my mom and I are on the couch watching that.

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.

When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.

All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.

Even in 1971, J. Geils was into the Stones. When I heard Geils, I realized that a lot of other people hearing them had never heard the Stones.

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.

When I was about 13, I went to see this band called Free, who I'd never heard, and I just fell in love with them. I found my heroes. I stood at the front with my chin on the stage.