Quotes About Meaning

Black is not a color.

I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I'm much cleaner than the people they like. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to think that a 70-year-old - particularly someone like Alan Bennett - would like it, because they've seen a lot of stuff.

At the end of the day, people enjoy being comfortable. But that's not what life is about.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.

I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man!

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Language cares.

Clarity of communication is important.

I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

With my own work, I've always tried at least to wake people up and shake them out of their complacency. And that's always easier if I'm working with an artist who really has something to say.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.