Listener Perspective Quotes

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.

People take songs so literally.

I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them.

People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.