Weyes Blood Quotes

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.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

I'm just trying to write things that resonate with people. And when we're all going through something together, I think you smile after that - I hope that people leave inspired after one of my shows.

If you're living a nice lifestyle and you have no problems, you put on our record, you won't get it.

One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.

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.

Love stories should be relatable.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.