I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

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

Desire is the essence of a man.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Love is a serious mental disease.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

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.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

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

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.