When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Men must know their limitations.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I’m tender on the inside.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

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

Get mad, then get over it.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.