Jason Calacanis Quotes

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

For many years, people have encouraged me to share my story. Prince was loved the world over, but few knew him intimately. And ours was a rare, almost otherworldly connection.

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.

There's nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister.

Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.

I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.

It's a deeper connection when you meet someone online and talk to them every day.

This kind of one-on-one connection of tweeting, I've really grown to get a kick out of.

All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.

I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.

I feel such a connection to 'Violet.'

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.

Amy Winehouse affected my life tremendously. I think maybe she was the first sense of intimacy that I had with a complete stranger, musically speaking.

I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.

A lot of people feel they spend enough time watching me go through the good, the bad, and the ugly, so they feel like they know me and are a part of it. I'm kind of like a part of people's families. You can't buy that kind of connection with people.