He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.
I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.
The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.
I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.
Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?
With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
