Andrea Corr Quotes

If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.

L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

I just like being around people, especially nice people, and there are a lot of nice girls on tour.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

I feel like I'm an actor that likes to have lots of points of connection.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

I'll walk around the city, and people will come up to me and say, 'Hi,' or 'Keep up the good work,' or whatever, and I'll stop and talk to them.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

I do realise I need to expand my social circle so I can meet more people.

Look, I'm 41 with a six-year-old son, and even though I live in a building with a million kids, he doesn't have one friend there because there's no context for making that happen. I think there's a huge market for a connected building where I could broadcast to other parents that I want to set up a playdate for my child.

I was just like that anyhow - wherever I used to work, jobs-wise, I'd always be in the canteen talking to people and laughing and everything.