Anderson Cooper

It's another great question.

It's a beautiful, close feeling.

Like I picked up a cue from her and got it just the way she wanted me to get it.

It's that sparkle between people when you've made a great connection.

And I felt that before, just as a little kid to an older sister.

But it's the adult-to-adult connection that I feel we finally got to make.

Through music, through emotion, through being able to write about it, just listening to you read some of the stuff right there, I go right back to the searching.

I wanted to meet her.

I wanted to know her better.

She did.

She said that thing that nobody had said to me before in her own deeply personal way, that when words fail you,

ride music it'll take you a long way and it has it's taken me

Everywhere I've been able to go.

Making movies is a musical experience most of the time for me.

And I can go back to music as a diary and as a souvenir for the way I felt in a certain time.

And music was what allowed her to introduce herself to me as an adult.

And I go back to what you and Patti Smith were talking about, the sacred wounds.

are not painful necessarily.

The sacred wounds can be treasures.

And these sacred wounds I have for my sister and my dad and my mom and friends beyond my family, it keeps the conversation