Life Quotes

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert - but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you're going to fall in love with. You never know who's going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I'll let you decide which is the more important revelation.

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it's not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn't been boy-centric.

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.