The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

Do remember: your sexiness is about how you feel, not how you look.

Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.

What you do doesn’t define you. You can’t let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.

There is always a way out, as there is a way in

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Reworking other tracks is also quite cool.

We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.