Mary Shelley Quotes

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

Communication is the transfer of emotion.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Music is the way I talk to people.

Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them.