I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

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.

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

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Intimates are predestined.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

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

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

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.‘

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

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

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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 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.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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.