Quotes About Connection

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

When I'm onstage, I'm on, but a different part of me is on: the part of me that absorbs life, sees everything occurring, and touches on everything around me.

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.

You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.

I feel like Black Thought is a name that has so much meaning and depth, not only to me but to my fans, that it's something that I wanted to hold onto a little bit tighter.

Some guys didn't have fathers. Some guys grew up with great dads but the weight of fatherhood shifts onto their shoulders because they make millions now. Some guys are away from their kids or divorced. I'm letting them all know they aren't alone when it comes to fatherhood issues and to encourage them to make time for their kids.

I'm open to finding love.

Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld the two, then you open the world up to, I think, communities that will just take to each other.

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.

I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

I wasn't a part of any real clique at school but had a select few friends that I would open up to.

At the Human Rights Foundation, I love being able to drive an interview and value-connecting with someone I'm interviewing so that they feel comfortable enough to open up and share their story with me.

There must be one guy open and I want to find him.

The reason I have LGBT fans is because I'm an open book; they're attracted to that.

I'm like an open book. Whatever is going on with my life, I'm going to let the people know. I feel like that's how you always stay in-tune with your fans, letting them know everything that you've got going on.

If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.