I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

I prefer love over sex.

I really want to fall in love.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Love is one of my main inspirations.

Yes, I have made a woman cry.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

I'm very romantic.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

When I'm in love, I wake up happy.

I always respect a woman.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

I love what I do, and I think I've appreciated it more throughout the years, but just to keep on traveling, keep on doing shows, and hopefully making better albums. That's always my goal.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

I'm quite grounded.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

I dont like being lied to so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies basically.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.