I am not a cop. Really. I’ve just been playing one on television so long that people get a little confused sometimes.
One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and ‘you should be married,’ is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
I need an audience to look at what I’ve done so I can understand it, so I can step back and watch them respond and figure out what they’re understanding about what I’m trying to do and what they’re confused about.
Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we’re about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don’t make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I’m aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.
Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that’s what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.
Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.
I can’t say I’m not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it’s not true. I’m not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
I started on Vine when I first started. My parents were pretty confused about it. They definitely weren’t like, ‘Don’t do it,’ but they also were definitely parents like, ‘you have to go to college.’ So they didn’t really understand what the whole concept was and what it could possibly turn into.
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
It may sound corny and cliche, but there was a time – and there are still times even today – when I feel lost or confused, and I question if I’m doing the right things. Then I look at my fans, and I listen to music, and I’m reminded that this is my destiny.
