For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

You can’t trust very many people.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

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.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Smiles are the language of love.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Speak low, if you speak love.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Friends are thieves of time.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.