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.
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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.
I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
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.
There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies.
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.
People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone.
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
