I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

No, I never thought I would like cats.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I don’t generally read reviews.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

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

I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Hunger is the best pickle.

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

I hate the idea of genres.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

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.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

I’m a fry lover.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.