Free Interpretation Quotes

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

'Shoop' is whatever you want it to mean. You just shooping around. Just shoop!

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

I make music for people to hear it, so get it however you want!

Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

'Skins' was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.

I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about.

It's not my job to tell people what a work means.

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.

What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.