“Papa Don’t Preach”

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

I’m anal-retentive. I’m a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I’m a control freak. That’s why I’m not married. Who could stand me?

Confidence is everything.

Sick and perverted always appeals to me.

We all fall to the floor at some point. It’s how you pick yourself up that’s the real challenge. Isn’t it?

When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Who dares, wins.

I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to, you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

If it’s bitter at the start, then it’s sweeter in the end.

Only when I’m dancing can I feel this free.

I still have hope in the goodness of humans.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Deep in my heart, I’m concealing things that I’m longing to say. Scared to confess what I’m feeling – frightened you’ll slip away.

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.

The funny thing is, the more you know, the more passionate you feel about life, and the more joy you feel, and the more inspired you feel, but then also the more disgusted you are with humanity […] [this is] the paradox of life.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

To our girls, the name father is another name for what we created, love.

I will never rue the love inside of my heart because I have a king to uphold and queens to raise.

You blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.

Children raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained,I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.