Quotes About Connection

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

I never got why actors don't like it when a fan comes up to them on the street. It is cool that someone recognizes what you do and makes you feel like you live in a community.

All the fans that are aware that I'm a family man and I have five kids and the newborn, and they send messages on social media or a sign in the audience, or they just say it to me person-to-person on the street, I appreciate all of that.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

As a kid I could be in New Lodge in a minute. I'd go down our street, turn right and I was there.

I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.

The Champions League nights are special for the fans, too. You can feel it on the streets.

Philadelphia's awesome. It's one of my top home-away-from-homes. When I walk around on the streets there, people recognize me. They think I'm from Philadelphia, because I was there so much and because I'm so associated with Philadelphia through ECW.

The streets spoke to me in a way that religion didn't.

I ran into Ben McKenzie a couple of times on the streets of L.A., and we hung out one time, and that's it.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather's block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China.