Quotes About Meaning

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

Literature is analysis after the event.

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.

Art is longer than life.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.

You give up a lot being an atheist.

People just love stories.

What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.

It's crazy how loyal country fans are. I can't say enough how much that means to me.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

We don't analyze our lyrics.

Lyrics are really important for me.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.