Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Marriage is the death of hope.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

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.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.