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I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

The key is to constantly keep the audience surprised. If they feel like something is going to happen, or they think from an educational standpoint that something is about to happen because of all the moving parts, it is your job to break that expectation and show the audience something different.