K. A. Applegate Quotes

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.

When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like about me. They can reach out and touch me. I wouldn't give it up for anything.

The more you allow yourself to be vulnerable, the more people will be able to relate and learn from you, because we're all human.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

As a songwriter and as a vocalist, Adele is amazing. You have that. But then there's something about her that's just very honest. I feel like so many people across the board can relate to her and who she is. She's just so appealing and very real.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.

I think that people relate on matters of the heart.

I suppose my job is to describe spaces that are honest to me. And the goal, I suppose, is that the listener can hear themselves in some way in that song and also, in some way, hear me. And so if the listener is able to identify with my honesty then I'm being the most helpful I can possibly be.

You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.

I think there's strength in seeing somebody who's not necessarily winning at life... to make something that makes people feel like they've won when they hear it.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

SpongeBob is an innocent, and people respond to an innocent. I don't think it matters if you're young or old.

I want people to be able to relate to me and the trials and tribulations and struggles that I go through.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.