Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

No one loves the man whom he fears.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

I dote on his very absence.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

It’s not possible to stop love.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Love is trembling happiness.

I’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.