Misconstruing Quotes

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

Online, your quotes can now be picked up around the world, twisted, translated, and interpreted to mean the opposite of what you have actually said.

Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.

Sentences defended as literally accurate can mislead.

It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want.

When you have something special, it's like everybody picks apart words. They'll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something that's special and trash it.

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.