Quotes About Interaction

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

A lot of our communication has now become digital, and it does not mimic the natural way we have evolved to communicate with each other, so it's almost like we have this muscle, these social-emotional skills, and they're atrophying, right?

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.

We want people to stay on MySpace. We'll give them whatever they might want to do.

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

I go on Twitter and MySpace and I see all the love, and that's a big help.

There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.