Quotes About Connection

On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!

My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.

I feel like in order for something to connect to an audience there needs to be a form of authenticity.

I did an episode of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I've known him for years.

I love to share food, especially if I made it or I'm particularly proud of what I ordered.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

If you love a person truly, you can make an ordinary day very special for her.

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people.

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Oregon is home to me.

Being from Oregon, it's part of who I am.

I love Oregon. I love the community.

I think that 'Psychopomp' is very much a Eugene, Oregon record.

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut.