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

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I was adored once too.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

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.

Great loves too must be endured.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

You can stroke people with words.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.