Quotes About Communication

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

If I can make someone laugh while sending a message, that's the best lesson.

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels.

When you are new and working with senior artists, it is their responsibility to make you comfortable.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

In a reading, I might hear a voice, see an image or even get a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone passed.

Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen to Him by leaving them laughing and chuckling with one another.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

I go for a sensible dinner with the wife when I can.

It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works.

From past experience I wouldn't go out with another musician. With song writing people can be a bit sensitive. Something completely different, like a lawyer, would be good.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

My dad has learned all of the songs that I've sent him. He put it on his computer, on his jukebox, on his phone.

As far as k. d. lang is concerned, she grew up devouring my music. She sent me a song when she was 8 years old, and she says I never wrote back.

I find that when I'm in an argument and I'm angry, I can't even form a sentence well. You say something and then later you're like 'That's not even what I meant at all!'

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.