Quotes About Interpretation

Film in many ways is very literal.

I don't ever get too literal.

People take songs so literally.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

I've always said that music is like literature.

Literature is analysis after the event.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

I'm always loyal to how I understand music, how I want to present myself, how I understand my job.

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

I'm a real stickler for a great lyric, or what I think is a great lyric. It's almost impossible for me to sing a song I don't love. My thing is: If it's a great lyric, you can do anything with the song.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Most times, lyrics are the last thing I listen to, being a musician.

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

We don't analyze our lyrics.

Lyrics are really important for me.