Quotes About Engagement

I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.

Singles are for people that want to chart - I'm measuring my success by how well I connect with people.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

It's an honour when your audience sings along, more than they listen to you at a live gig.

Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'

My demographic is very broad. Once they come, they had an idea about jazz, and then they hear me, and they come back with sisters, brothers, and kids. My audience looks like America to me.

Life is too short to sit around doing nothing.

Both Dhoni and me, we are so interested in what we are doing right now that we don't sit and think about future. This thing commands your attention because you love it so much. Your experience is not distorted by your fear or desire to attain something.

I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

I like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.

I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It's going to be a fun time.

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.

Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.

My kids like it when I sit with them and watch the movies or games they are interested in.

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it just feels like you're sort of watching a reenactment of previous episodes?

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.