Quotes About Meaning

You might be talking to someone who relates a song to losing a friend and you end up talking in the most intimate way. You can get so engaged that you end up in this existential conversation.

I think that the audience is smart enough to know that just because a drama is relating to real-world parallels, it doesn't mean that its story is exactly that story.

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.

In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to chew on, lyrically and content-wise.

It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.

I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.

I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.

Im sure most artists say this, but my favorite songs are not the hits.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.