Quotes About Connection

I remember a very nurturing, safe environment: everybody knew who I was, who my parents were, who my grandparents were, what part of Russia we were from originally. That was a really comforting feeling. Non-Mennonites, when they see that aspect of it, think it's a beautiful thing, and it is, but there's so much going on besides.

I'm originally from New York, and I just have a love affair with that place.

I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes to church. He's down the street. He's one of the boys at the schoolyard. They exist.

I've fallen in love a few times in Orlando, I've dated some people that live there.

Never will I ever have any bad feelings toward Orlando; it will always be positive.

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

The way the team and the community embraced us when we first arrived, and the way they continue to do so, even today, shows how deep this connection is. I'm honored to be a part of this organization and so proud to retire as a New Orleans Saint.

I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me.

New Orleans is home. That's where the heart is.

I love the fans here in New Orleans. They show so much love.

New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted.

New Orleans is kind of like a second home for me.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts.

I am very good friends with Oscar and David Luiz, and Ramires at Chelsea is another one I see.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.