Quotes About Interaction

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

I don't take story input from fans.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

The social media thing is insane: the constant engagement with the public, not even just your fans. It's not really about the music; it's about how you can be seen.

The actors have to be able to feed each other and inspire each other.

Inspiring children at an early age is key, and perhaps we need to put technology in a more social context.

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.

After I built up a following on Instagram, I realized it's a good way to talk to your fans. I always try to keep the conversation going - they're really happy when that happens.

I'm on my phone 24/7 replying to every Instagram comment and message to try and understand how people are seeing us, and their questions and concerns.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

I think that's the thing I love about making content online - you get instant response.

It's all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.

WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That's the cool thing about being in front of a live audience every single week in WWE. You get instant feedback.

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

I suppose I am instinctively flirtatious. But not exclusively to women. I want to be liked.

Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.

Integration is a give and take.

I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.