A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

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

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Speak low, if you speak love.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The human heart is the same the world over.