The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

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.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

In the real world, children love me.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song ‚Radio Gaga.‘

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

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

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.