Quotes About Engagement

When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's your favorite color - I didn't know.

I can still deliver behind closed doors, we just need to get a recording of the fans singing and shouting in the arena so I can hear them chanting.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.

I love going into a home and talking to a family that knows nothing about recruiting - about the whole process. I love selling who we are and what we are, and that's something I really missed when I was on TV.

If you can imagine digging into something and trying to fit all the pieces together, that's recruiting for us.

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.