Quotes About Ambiguity

Thought you said this was just dinner?" Abe opens the glass door and holds it for me. As I pass by him, he lowers his head so that his voice is close to my ear. "It's never just dinner.

What do you think of all this? Am I a friend or foe - or a little of each? Are the important things black and white, or maybe a little gray?

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

I wrote and recorded a song that I highly doubt I will release. The lyrics are somewhat risque. I may have to create an alter ego, and she can be the 'singer.'

Reality is not always dark or positive. It is somewhere in-between.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.

With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.

I don't really like to talk about what my songs are about.

I'm not an author, but as a songwriter, I'm afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess the secrets of my relationships with people and face basically no consequences, or ask for no approval or permission.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

I can't really describe my sound.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

When had things gotten so tangled in her heart and mind? Everything had been clear at one point, hadn't it? No, she supposed it never had been perfectly clear.

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

Tex?" I whispered."Yeah?""Enemies or lovers right now?"He sighed and kissed my head. "Both, we'll always be both.

What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything.