A lot of my fans are people who have grown up and don't have as much time to listen to the radio, but still want to keep up with what's popular. A lot of shows don't talk to them anymore, but I do.
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly. I feel very lucky that a lot of my influences are the ones that people will tweet to me that I remind them of.
I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.
I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.
That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.
Father Dyer: Listen, if you ever go up there again will you take me along? Astronaut: What for? Father Dyer: First missionary on Mars.
Tyler Durden: Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Bard the Bowman: [upon hearing Smaug's arrival] Listen to me! All of you! Do you not see what is coming?
Short Round: I keep telling you, you listen to me more, you live longer!
Mink: Listen, Bernie wants to see you. It's important. Tom Reagan: Yeah, well, I'm right here. I'm not made of glass.
Mulan: No one will listen to me. Mushu: Huh? I'm sorry, did you say something? Mulan: Mushu! Mushu: Hey, you're a girl, again. Remember?
Larry Lipton: I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.
Sam Bell: Listen, why don't you relax. Why don't you take a pill, bake a cake, go read the encyclopedia.
Diane: Carol Anne - listen to me. Do NOT go into the light. Stop where you are. Turn away from it. Don't even look at it.
Max Bialystock: Listen. Every night people are laughing at your beloved Fuhrer. Why? Franz Liebkind: It's that L.S.D., und his verdampter "babies"!
Joe: Now listen up, Mr. Pink. There's two ways we can do this job. My way... or the highway!
