Imogen Heap Quotes

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

What matters is that I'm making a connection with people and getting a reaction.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

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

It's always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that's what it's all about, man.

I knock on lots of doors, but you don't reach everyone that way - Twitter is just one of many ways of keeping in touch.

If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.