“I’ve always felt a little misrepresented in the world.”

It’s sweet that I don’t have to do my laundry.

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.

I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.

I was a fight to the death, and I felt great.

He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.

Patch? Whatever happens, i love you.” i wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way i felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.

If you can’t feel, why did you kiss me?” patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. “because i feel it here, in my heart,” he said quietly.

Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing i did right. You’re the one thing i did right.

And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.