“There are very few things in my life that I can’t have if I want them. So when I see something that I can’t have, immediately I’m obsessed by it.”

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

I just hope that I’ll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

I wouldn’t marry until I was ready to have children.

I’ve done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I’m dead, so I might as well write the script.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I’m a fool, which you’ve probably worked out by now.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I’m no exception to that.

I think the media is a real demon.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Freedom. I will not give you up.

I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

I couldn’t change anything without changing the end position, and I’m perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it’s left me here.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

It’s not your life that sucks, it’s your thinking that sucks!

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God’s love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.