Building Community Quotes

I like meeting and connecting with readers.

I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.

What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.

I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

I didn't have a lot of homies in school when I was young because I was gay and weird and mean, so I went to theater class because I was like, 'Yo, I need a hobby.'

We're not really in the real-estate space so much as we are the community-building space.

It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.

That's one thing you can never go wrong as an athlete, try to connect with the fans.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

I hope we build a son who's strong enough to stand up for other people. And if Donald Trump is out there teaching folks how to build walls, we're hoping to instil in our son the ability to know how to take them down.

I read all my fan comments on my social media. I love answering questions.

I love meeting the fans, and I love shaking hands, and that's what it's all about. It really is.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

Something I often say is, 'I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I'm ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.' And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.

I've always been online and available to my fans.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

Nowadays, so many girls are really harsh online and always bringing each other down, so one of the things we try to do is help bring them back together.

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.