I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.
You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.
If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.
I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.
People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'
My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.'
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.
When you fall in love, you become weak.
I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'
I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
'Let Me Love You' is about being brave enough to let a person get close enough to you to teach you how to love yourself, to teach you the importance of loving yourself.
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.
If someone says, 'I love 'Jessica Jones!'' I just say, 'Thanks, I love you back!'
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
You are the eternal France, I love you.
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: 'I don't care, I love you anyway.' There are young kids thinking: 'I'll never come out because it's too hard in our communities.' But I'm saying maybe your story can be similar to mine.