Quotes About Communication

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

I'm proud of our relationship with our neighbors right next door in Mexico. I don't talk about building walls, I talk about building bridges and increasing that communication, increasing that flow, and that's really what defines our border region in San Diego.

A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.

If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.

I want someone who can make me laugh and just be normal and understand my lifestyle and how I wanna live it.

I had 20,000 followers and I treasured that. People'd say, 'Oh that's nothing.' I said, 'What are you crazy? That's 20,000 people that wanna hear what I gotta say!'

I speak three languages - English is my third language - so I take my time with lyrics. It's almost like having a conversation with somebody. If it's really important, you want to think about what you wanna say with that person, especially if it's for the last time.

I've always been quite scared about talking about race. You don't wanna rock the boat because you want to keep working.

I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you.

People talk, talk, but when it's time to fight me, they all wanna hug me.

When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for instance, it's sometimes hard to switch back to very simple talking, like I am forced to do in Finnish. So a real conversation, when I really wanna tell something, I can't do it in Finnish.

I just wanna hear my own voice.

You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'

If I'm writing a tune with someone I'm making sure it's what they wanna say and it's articulating what they have to share.

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

The perfect date is real simple. I wanna just spend a nice casual day walking in the park, playing on the swings... throwing bread crumbs to the ducks, really just chilling and getting to know each other and connecting with the real woman.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

Instagram is great but I'm not an amazing photographer and I don't wanna post selfies constantly.

I'm not as articulate as I'd wanna be.

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

I feel like if you wanna be sober and you can't handle being around someone who drinks, then don't do it.

In broadcasting, especially 'cause people are more public, it's hard to be like 'so what are you making?' Finding that information is huge when you're negotiating a contract. You wanna make sure that you're in the same ballpark.