Mel Torme Quotes

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

I realised it was very important to show the fans that I'm a normal person.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

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.

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

I give everyone upmost respect, and when people feel that, you end up getting the most out of your interaction with them. That connectivity is really important in my life.

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

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 sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

I'm so lucky that I have a great relationship.

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.

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

If I see something in somebody, if it's something similar in my shot, I feel like it's the same type of thing in life. People who tell you what to do all the time or have all the answers for you, it's like, 'OK, whatever.' But if you've gone through something in life, you can speak to something a little more.

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

I think that a lot of times Mr. Peanutbutter is absolutely speaking directly to the audience and saying basic, human truths that we need to hear.

I hope I can just be a regular human being to people.

Because of my personality, I'm able to connect with kids on a personal level.

A lot of times, we forget it is our partners who we need to make the biggest effort for.