Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

Good music tells a story that people relate to.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

I've gotten so many messages I could even get emotional thinking about it, but I've gotten so many messages from young kids all over the country that my story's resonated with them.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

I think any great song is difficult to write, in some aspect. It's just difficult to make somebody feel something. That is the main goal. How do you make somebody want to get up and dance? How do you make somebody feel okay after their breakup?

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.

My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

I understand that I'm able to connect with people; I have an emotional bonding with people. My strength lies in my ability to tell stories and to touch people's hearts and to move them.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

I'm moved by what I hear about the power of music.

I want people to be inspired by my music.

Knowing that I inspire kids - it's a great feeling.

My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.