Music is more emotional than prose more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
If not for music I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything I don't advocate anything I just live with it.
I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace love and understanding.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library the doors to learning are always open.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal few really ASK. On the contrary they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored wouldn't we? We keep looking searching trying to get more knowledge.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
History is strictly speaking the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.