Quotes About Communication

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I have to really concentrate because of the language barrier.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.

You walk into a restaurant these days, and what you see is everyone with their phone next to them. That is terrible. Instead of concentrating on the relationship, on the needs and activities and interests of the other person, they are constantly looking at their phone.

Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a monogamous relationship.

If you're with someone, it's because you're moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle.

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

Unfortunately, Republicans are too often tone-deaf to the concerns of black Americans.

I appreciate women who lay all their concerns out, and can talk through things.

I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.

Sometimes I ask at concerts, how many of you are on Twitter, and the crowd goes crazy. Then I ask about Facebook, and the crowd goes even more crazy.

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you're doing your job well.

But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into only so many words, because in a song you really only have three, four minutes to have a complete world in this song, so I think it definitely taught me to be concise.