Marc Maron Quotes

I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

You can never have too many friends.

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.

It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

No one shows love. There's no unity between the artists and the streets. There's none of that in D.C. You're never gonna get love in D.C. If you get love in D.C., then you're a special person.

Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I'm getting the attention from the young people on social media. It's been missing.

I feel like it's very important to connect with the people who are passionate about what I'm doing.

Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.

I'm not looking to be a superstar. I just want to be in a room with good people who are similar to me and are at least open to things that I have to say.

I don't always like walking down the street and making sure that I smile and say hello to everybody who's walking their dog in the opposite direction. But I do do it. And it's a small, tiny thing to do. But to me, it means 'I see you. You're not invisible to me.'

Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.

My relationship with fans is based off the love of my work and my work ethic.

As much as I preach self-love, it's so hard for me to love myself. It's really hard, and it's just about building a good network of people and, in this case, a good network of artists. Trying to live your ideals as best as you can.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

I surround myself with incredible, capable people, and the beautiful part about the artists I've chosen to work with, and the artists that have chosen to work with me, is that we share the same family values.

The essence of Yungblud is connection. That's all I want to do: connect with people.