Quotes About Engagement

Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

Our shows are more fun when there aren't barriers.

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I'm not trying to bash you over the head with what I have to say.

Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'

I want people to go deep into my music like Baton Rouge does.

When you go up there in the batter's box, you're engaged to hit. It's the same thing with baserunning.

You have to pick your battles on set.

If we want our politics to be different, we need to be different.

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

You've got to be more focused, especially starting and playing more minutes. You know the ball's going to be in your hand a lot so you've just got to be prepared for it.

Be true to your audience, or you will lose money.

If we're all talking about something that doesn't matter, it can be bean talk. If we're talking about something that we're talking about together, it could be bean talk.

When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing essays. I think they were at least happy I was excited about school.

People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.

When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.

I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

You have to tell the people that you want to serve what it is you believe and what you are going to do on their behalf.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.