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You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

Things have to touch me as a human being. I do films that touch my heart.

My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

A lot of people make music to sell music. I don't just sell music. I am essentially, I guess the word I want to use is, it's like an energetic transaction.

People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.

That's the cool thing that music can do: make you feel this or that way. That's all I've ever wanted to achieve - I'm a music guy, you know? That's my occupation.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

People want things that address their everyday reality, and that goes for stuff that isn't political - with singer-songwriter music, people want things that touch them.

When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

The true artform is being a human being.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.

Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

That's what I miss, being a real human.