Ravi Subramanian Quotes

I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is whether critics or the public like what I do.

Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job.

It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it's not good to engage with them too much.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

In this job you are going to write things and say things. Some people will hate them and some people will love them. That goes with the job and I respect the right of the people to have views and express them.

[Characterizing public criticism:] It only hurts for a day.

The public always wants to be told.

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.

My 'Glee' experience taught me - to a certain degree - not to listen too much to fan backlash, at least to negative things. Once you have the job, you have the job, and you've got to do it.