“Okay? That’s despicable. Right? That’s not what we’re talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.”

The Voice’ is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

Men need to live and breathe women.

I don’t date my girlfriend because she’s a model. I date her because I love her.

I don’t know if it’s possible to live the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

I’m cocky. It’s different. Cocky is playful.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person’s opinion about it.

Hey, bro…So there’s like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.

Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so many different forms of media, MTV doesn’t play videos, the radio is now competing with the Internet.

Nothing wrong with making money.

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective.

I think that’s actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.