Soulful Quotations

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.

I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

As successful as BET has been in the past 25 years, I knew that an aggressive investment in original programming -- in both senses of the word 'original' -- could turn BET from a beast to a monster. I wanted BET to be like Motown -- a soulful beat that the whole world dances to.

If you listen to Donny Hathaway, he had a lot of jazz elements in the way he sang, ... For me, the two styles borrow from each other so much that sometimes it's hard for me to make a distinction. When you hear Lalah sing the combination, that's when she really shines -- when she's allowed to dip into her jazz when she wants to and then get soulful and do the R&B thing.

George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it.

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

Her makeup, hair and general quirkiness overshadow the fact that Cyndi Lauper was one the most soulful chicks to come out of the '80s.