“Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.”

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.

I’m not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don’t think I’m entitled to it. That’s a big difference.

Markets are conversations.

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

I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

Ronald Reagan was this actor who was going to be president, and he was very charming. What he had was, he talked about America in ways that got people all caught up in it. He was creating this America – it could even be the mythical “America” – that we subscribe to.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

I’ve talked to Bill Clinton – he’s the ultimate rock star; no one’s more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don’t get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.