It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Children make your life important.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

In married life three is company and two none.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.