I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.
The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.
For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.
There's nothing more instructive than the immediate response of an audience.
I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'