To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Children make your life important.

Marriage is the death of hope.

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

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

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Great loves too must be endured.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

My mother did not like children.

Music is really driving my whole life.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

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.