Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Love is a state of being.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Hatred is self-punishment.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

All you need is love.

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.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

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

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

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

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.