Quotes About Connection

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a product of pop culture. I'm a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

There have been so many times when I'm sitting next to someone, and I have no idea who they are. I'm not very up to date on pop culture, and I'm sure I've offended people by being like, 'Oh, what do you do?'

There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.