There’s something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn’t work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like ‘Les Miserables’ would be the last...

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I’ve got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You’ve got to deal with this better.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

The thing I love about Myspace is it’s a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in...

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google’s traffic congestion maps.

Well, now, and there’s – for every dollar the federal government spends, there’s real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that’s going to...

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot...

Don’t talk while you’re talking. It interrupts me.

I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed...

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio – using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

You don’t ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country’s agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they’re eating or their family, and from that you get the...

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less...

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose...

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don’t know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people...

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don’t like to talk about, or like to ignore.

It’s funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can’t remember the exact years, it’s funny isn’t it?

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...

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that’s irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there...

I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves… But I don’t do things because people always like what I do.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn’t talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather – how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you’re moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer,...

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don’t think there’s any doubt but that people won’t...

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a ‘yeah’. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to...

It’s difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I’m a relatively bright man and I’ve had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don’t like, and still...

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is – it’s talk… You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk’s gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little...

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we’d read; you can say something, you don’t have to explain it.

Even now I can’t stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I’m pathologically shy.

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering...

We all know the power of film; we all know there’s almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

That’s the thing with dementia. If you’re with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then – the person is still with you. With...

I don’t like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it’s a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.

Harlem is a stage. It’s like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.

Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take...

Listen carefully how people speak about others to you. That’s the way they speak about you to others.

Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.

You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

I don’t know what I’m proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.

I’ve never been cocky. Even right now I don’t like to talk about the Olympics.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.