Quotes About Relationships

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all.

The quality of the thought that a person has got inside and sought from outside is likely to decide the quality of the people that has been brought into his life.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

Is there life in other families?

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive.

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.