Quotes About Connection

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

If something is in my mind, I can easily forget everything else and maybe forget about other people. I'm trying to change it's not that I'm that bad. I want people to want to work with me.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

Talking to fans has really blown my mind. It's made me so happy to know my work has touched people.

You know it doesn't work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)

We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

We don't work for each other, We work with each other.

Don't worry, Mel. Miracles don't work that way. I'll never lose you. I'll never let you get away from me.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.

The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.

I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.