It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Of course I get hurt.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

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

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.