Quotes About Connection

I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when I die, and my cooking translates in my daughter's memory as, simply, this: time.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

As an adult, you want to connect with people, and you want to feel accepted.

My sons have such a deep access to my heart.

I think one of the reasons people are so passionate about our band is because we're so accessible.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

I think I'm approachable, I think I'm accessible and I want to make sure that Iowans know that so that they feel comfortable with me.

I don't know the accident of still being married. I was the worst human being. But we were, I guess, in love. So much has happened to us to bring us together and keep us together.

I'm accompanied by my mother whenever I go to Bangalore.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

The goal, and the ultimate achievement, is to make people feel as well as think.

As an actor, it's important to feel for the character, as you will be watched by audience, and when you start feeling your character, you share a sense of happiness and achievement.

I go out of my way to acknowledge the public and let them know that I'm not always on stage. Offstage, I care. I live their life.

I think it's really important to acknowledge that gay men and straight men can be friends.

Where I was brought up, if you were walking down the street and you looked at someone and they looked at you, you acknowledged them.

If a person feels like 'They're not acknowledging me'... That's a very important feeling in life, even if it's not romantic.

There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.

John Stamos is a good acquaintance of mine.