You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.
It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.
The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.
