No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

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.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Love is only one of many passions.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

My friends are my estate.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.