If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

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.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

All mankind love a lover.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Children make your life important.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.