I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Language is the dress of thought.

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

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Smiles are the language of love.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

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

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

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

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.