Miley Cyrus Quotes

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

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.

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.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

So, I've got to have food, I've got to have humor. But these things are just the way in to what the show's really about, I think, which is connecting with the people.

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

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

Why would anybody connect to someone who has everything going for them? It's the person who has faults that people want to connect to. So people identify with certain insecurities on stage and just by me talking about my diabetes people come up to me after the show and tell me "Gabe, my blood sugar is out of control and I feel you". That's the first thing they say, they say "I feel you!".

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

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.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.