A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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

Women. They are a complete mystery.

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.

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.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

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

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Women don’t try to use me.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.