If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.
Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.
Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
