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

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].

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They’re not as mature as women. They’re not as connected with their emotions as women…

I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.

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.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.