personal connection quotes

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

I’m so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.