“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”

“I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.”

“What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections.”

“If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life?”

“It's good. You know, it's nice coming out and actually meeting all your fans - you make this thing in your bedroom and you don't really know who is going to get it or relate to it or anything, you know? And you just pour your heart out kind of thing, and then you find out you relate to people and that's the final process of it. You know, to meet people who are actually like you and that you connect with, you know what I mean? That's kind of cool. That's the best thing about touring.”

“It is amazing how the brain will connect one thought to another until it gets to where it wants to be.”

“There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.”

“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”

“Connecting with those who remind who you are strengthens you, we see unity is the only truth—separation is the only illusion.”

“I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.”