Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

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

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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.‘

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice.

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

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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.

I never fall in love.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

It’s not possible to stop love.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

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

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

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

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.