Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Soul music is timeless.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul