Quotes About Interpretation

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.

Men like mystery. They don't want to be told everything woman are thinking.

You speak Quichua better than we do," said Wakcha, a proud young Indian who always wore a pith helmet, a sign of great prestige among his people. "You hear us too well. We are talking away, saying to ourselves, 'They do not hear,' and then you answer us!

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.

It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.

She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. So

false vision, an unconscious surrender to seeing things another way.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye

The only wrong way to read the Bible is to not read it at all.

art is absolutely meaningless. It is, however, also deeply meaningful.

I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting.

Well... why is a hard question to answer in any language.

As a creator, you can design any sort of jewelry that you like for the inside of other people's minds (or simply for the inside of your own mind). You can make work that's provocative, aggressive, sacred, edgy, traditional, earnest, devastating, entertaining, brutal, fanciful . . . but when all is said and done, it's still just intracranial jewelry-making. It's still just decoration. And that's glorious.

Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.

Music is nothing more than decoration for the imagination. That

I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can decide right away how offended they need to get.

Sometimes I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting.

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash.

inspiration comes from another world, you see, and it speaks a language entirely unlike my own, so sometimes we have trouble understanding each other. But inspiration is still sitting there right beside me, and it is trying.

excited, I want to pause for a moment and ask you to consider all the negative conclusions that I could have drawn about this incident

I realized as a songwriter that all I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds.

why is a hard question to answer in any language