Quotes About Meaning

It is what we do with our lives that counts.

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.

Angus is a pretty crappy name.

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?

Does it make a difference if I score 8000 or 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Not in anybody's life.

I really believe that every game of international cricket should have some sort of meaning and some sort of context to it - so the World Test Championship, the World One-Day League are all really, really important opportunities to the game.

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.

What we sell are not products... that customers are going to put in a closet and forget.

There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story - the supposed life cycle.

Don't ever get too busy to listen and connect because if you let yourself get stuck in that cycle, what are you actually working for anyway?

The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God question.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.