Anger cannot be dishonest.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

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

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

Football is a sad game.

Love is the one wild card.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.