Danny Carey Quotes

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

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 really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We're just four guys in a band trying to articulate things in a questioning way. Who are we to tell people what to think?

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

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

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice... Each play can become many things.

'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.

I try not to spend too much time interpreting my comics for people, because I try to put out there whatever I can, and people can draw whatever conclusions they want.

I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a lot of what I write.

I'm fine with a title that's open to interpretation.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

There are rules but there's really no wrong way.

My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how they choose.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

My artistic approach is that you're supposed to be a little baffled.

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.