Relationships are where theory meets practice. These quotes cover romance, communication, conflict, trust, and the daily work of maintaining a connection with another imperfect human being who is also trying to figure things out.
“I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.”
“Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.”
“My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.”
“There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.”
“I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.”
“I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.”
“Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.”
“I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.”
“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”
“For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.”
“I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.”
“Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.”
“I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.”
“I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.”
“My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.”
“Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.”