Quotes About Interpretation

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

For some people, pronouns are a very important part of how they identify. I completely understand that. For me, I have more of a looser interpretation.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.

There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

Some things in literature are inexplicable.

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.