Quotes About Meaning

I'm a pretty strong believer that everything happens for a reason.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

The expectations some Americans put on me is too much, is what I would say. But I don't take it that way. I know no one means harm to me like that or wanting to put too much pressure on me.

I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all about, really.

'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.

When I make music, I always try to do more than make a song that makes people dance and have fun. I try to send a message or give a reason for people to discuss it further.

I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.

At the end of the day, I feel like if you're not having fun with what you do, there's really not much of a point to be doing it.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'

Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.

We're all used to hearing the word 'authentic' a little too often these days, but in Senator Gillibrand's case, it's entirely accurate.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?

I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

The work I do in helping people out means much more to me than boxing ever did.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

I would want to wear No. 20, just because a lot of history behind that number through high school and college.