There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.
My heart is not peripheral to me.
Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.
Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not necessarily people, it's the essence of the time period, whether it be the '90s or the '70s or the '40s. The specific time and what vibe it gave you, what the emotion of that time was, and trying to get that emotion again.
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting.
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time.
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.
David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.
You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.
We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.
