I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I like to take it easy.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Personally, I don’t wear fur.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I don’t go to parties in general.