Lee DeWyze Quotes

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

So, I've got to have food, I've got to have humor. But these things are just the way in to what the show's really about, I think, which is connecting with the people.

You can generate a phenomenal relationship with an audience. It's very gratifying, a real privilege.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

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

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

When people feel they’re heard and understood, they’ll listen.

I think there's plenty of folks out there, whether they agree with me or not, they appreciate the fact that you're listening to them. And I think that's how you win.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

I always do my show and say hello. And a lot of people are standing around waiting to shake my hand and say thanks for, A, letting me talk to you, and letting me feel a part of what you do.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

I try to speak from a place of understanding and most times I'm speaking from a place of experience.

I'm really good at saying what other people are thinking and making it relatable.

It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when true understanding is achieved, especially between writer and reader. It's miraculous.