Joey Kramer Quotes

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

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

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

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.