Janis Joplin Quotes

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

I talk so much on stage - too much. I always get in trouble. But it's just the best to be able to connect with people.

It's hard to get intimate with an audience.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.