You get INSPIRATION from craziest places. It's just about being CREATIVE. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to REACH the people. You NEVER know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, REMEMBER that these experiences have NOTHING to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no LOWER or higher INDIVIDUALS in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

MEN spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and SILENT. They fight for independence the way WOMEN struggle to connect.

Fashion is really a place where EVERY other industry connects, whether it's music or acting. At the end of the day, everyone is going to walk the red CARPET and be interested in the fashion side of it. I think that's really cool because as a model, you GET to CONNECT with a lot of different worlds.

STORIES are the COMMON GROUND that allow people to CONNECT, despite all our defences and all our differences.

GRANDCHILDREN are the DOTS that CONNECT the LINES from GENERATION to generation.

As a teenager, I didn't WANT to be me; I WANTED to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived INSIDE me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become ASPECTS of me.

The METHOD helps actors connect in a WAY that is deeper and more real. So they use themselves instead of PLAYING an IDEA of the character. It's more emotionally true when it comes from them.

It's FUNNY: Your RELATIONSHIP changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a DIFFERENT person, so your songs, you don't connect with them LIKE you did.

Science is empirical, all about PHYSICAL senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. NOBODY has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet THOUGHTS and feelings are where we LIVE our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to HELP PEOPLE connect their CHOICE of studies to a potential CAREER at an earlier AGE so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.

I CONNECT to the tradition of Irish STORYTELLING. And I think there is something - I can't put my FINGER on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to TELL stories.

EARLY on, I had to structure my ideas of success AROUND things like, 'Can I go back and listen to the RECORD months or YEARS after I made it and still get some enjoyment out of it?' Or 'Have I said what I wanted to say on this album? Did it connect with people on a personal level, even if it's a small number of people?'

EVERYONE who makes music is a good collaborator at their FOUNDATION because in order to make music, you have to CONNECT to it in a way that other PEOPLE can't.

I find it quite hard to CONNECT with the SONGS where I PORTRAY myself as this clumsy, ADORABLE, love-struck man-child.