Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

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

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Single life is so overrated.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.