“It’s much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.”

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.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.

But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don’t line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself.

I’m glad to play for them. But I’d rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.

I’ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I’m deeply fortunate.

I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.

People saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them

To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image