Quotes About Meaning

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.

Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.

As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

I'm going to redefine what it means to be sexy, and it's going to be creepy as hell. Because I could never do the 'sexy' way of being sexy.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

If someone says to me that 'Horizon' is an anti-feminist anthem, I have to tell them, 'No, that's not right.' But I'm not interested in unpicking my music for people. Everybody has different reference points.

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

I think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor.

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

I think everything happens for a reason.