Quotes About Meaning

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

Style without content is bad style.

You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.

If you see my history with contracts, it's never been about money because if it was about money I would have made other choices.

I don't want to be a guy that's just out there to be out there; I want to play and contribute.

You have to find the thing you feel you can contribute to the world.

Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion.

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.

I'm not really the type that likes to put out a project just to say I've put it out - I like to make them count.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.