Carol Windley Quotes

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.