Cornelia Parker Quotes

I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.

I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.