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

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

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

You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.

There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She’s so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it’s a hit.

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you’re left feeling hollow and empty.

It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn’t do things right and had a poor business model.

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.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.