Quotes About Meaning

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Having a daughter made my music, I guess, more meaningful. It made me see more of life when I had my daughter.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

Biblical names are hot again.

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

I had a list of names I wanted to use. Ricochet happened to be one of them, but I really wanted a true name name, like Johnny Gargano, Adam Cole, John Cena.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.