Quotes About Connection

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.

My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.

Family is paramount to me in my life, and my own comes first above everything, and that's something universal that people can relate to.

I value my family more than anything. That's always paramount.

Clear communication is paramount for any relationship to become stronger.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.