“As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.”

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers – he’s one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

When you commit to being a musician, I don’t think you’re really sure or care about when you’re going to pay the bills.

They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

I’m feeling like the music business is reaping what it’s sown. It’s going through what inevitably it was going to go through.

If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it’s okay to have those feelings.

She’s the coolest person in the world…I don’t date what the person does…

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

And that’s when you know. It’s like, oh, my God, game over….

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you’re born with it.

Doing something that you love regardless when it’s a blockbuster movie or you’re writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out.

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People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

I’ve got the moves like Jagger.

That’s not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. … A lot of people probably did, I don’t know, [but I did not].

One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth.

I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don’t like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.

I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.

I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things.

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.