Quotes About Interaction

I really like the idea of fans being able to curate their entire digital experience at live events.

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

What part of media doesn't need to connect with their customers more smartly?

I look at technology as a way for us to engage with and help our customers. If we don't do it, someone else is going to.

Listen, sharing my life with people is just part of my daily routine.

I connect with people on a daily basis.

I believe that, just naturally, I'm a very soft-spoken person. Everyone tells me that on a daily basis - 'Speak up, we can't hear you,' or 'Elaborate on this.' But that's just how I am.

I probably carry a fair amount of sarcasm in my daily life.

I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?

I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them.

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just five quiet people at a table, that's not the same.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

I like to get the audience involved in my act by walking among the tables and getting people to ask me questions.

Everyone has tacit levels of trust, don't we? In every interaction that takes place in our professional and personal lives we have boundaries that we sort of trust the other person not to breach.

For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.

I have definitely had guys walk up to me, put their arm around me, and when they walk away, my shoulder smells like taco meat.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.