Quotes About Meaning

Making something of loss is, on some level, satisfying.

People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'

I'm not saving lives.

One rose says more than the dozen.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.

You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.