There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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.‘

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

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

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

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

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

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

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I just want to keep writing music.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.