I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

I'm a good man with a good heart had a tough time, got a rough start But I finally learned to let it go.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for

Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.

We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

[on Jessica Simpson] Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around Fear is a friend who's misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.

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