Quotes About Connection

When you have kids coming up to you saying, 'You're the reason I started playing drums,' it's the best feeling in the world.

I absolutely love Dubai. I have such a great community of fans out there, who always show me so much love.

Even when I went out to L.A. for the Chargers game, there was a couple guys there that had some kind of Duck stuff on, so I kind of expected it coming back to Heinz Field.

You don't realize when you're younger that how I treat this person coming up to me will affect their view of me for the rest of their lives. You can lose several fans because that one person will tell all the rest of their people about it, or they could be like, 'Man, that dude was cool as hell.'

I'm of the generation that discovered Aerosmith because of Run-DMC. They just looked crazy to me. They were the dudes in the Run-DMC video. That's who Aerosmith was.

My father passed away due to Alzheimer's disease, and many things I do are nods to him.

Due to my lack of family, I've almost built a family around me of friends that are, for me that is, they mean more to me than my own family.

Thundercat put me on to George Duke.

I can't dumb down for the audience because I believe my audience is at least as smart as I am.

It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.

Dusty Rhodes really liked me, I bonded with him.

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

I am dying to share screen space with Richa Chadha. In 'Masaan,' we do not have a single scene together.

I'd love to meet Thuli Madonsela, as she is such a powerful and dynamic woman.

I have an amazing family dynamic.

There is literally no one on earth who isn't interested in relationship dynamics, or how to meet someone special. Or if they've already met someone special, how to make that relationship as good as it can be. It's a universal subject.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

At the end of the day, wrestling is one big, happy, dysfunctional family.

My children have really liked the men in my life and they have liked each one of them.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

When I work with new girls, I talk their ear off and try to make them as comfortable as possible because I remember what it was like when I first started.

If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.

My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.