A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

Love, love will be my strongest weapon

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

Anybody that walks can sing.

He’s an indulgent sort of man……With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting they won't.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.