Quotes About Meaning

It really is draining: when you sing a song, it means so much to you, and every time you sing it, you feel it ,and these emotions come back.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

Write as if you were dying.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

I love when I feel like I earned something because I know, like, I don't feel that way for nothing.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of the story and the heart and the drive of the characters.

I just - I love my job. I love doing it. It's a passionate endeavor. And sometimes you can get close to something that you believe is the truth. The truth of something. Not all the time, but sometimes.

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Whether I act or direct I ensure that there is a social message attached.

When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain.

You know that Sajid Khan is a brand name and that you will get a family entertainer from him. I will never change that.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

I ended up having an epiphany that no body of work I put out will ever mean as much to me as '3:33 AM.'