Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

I'm a lousy journalist.

After a loss, you have to reassess a little bit and be realistic.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

When I tell a joke, I don't think about who's listening to it. I tell the jokes I think are funny.

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and - this is the tricky part - remembering.

There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

I listen to Christian music.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

We just allow anybody to listen to our music. All ages are allowed!

For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

It's not just in The Bronx or in the ghettos or even just America. It's worldwide. Who knows, it could be some aliens on Mars listening to hip-hop, you know what I mean? So it's really, really transformed from this little thing of ours to a thing for everyone.