I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend' and now I am happy being single.

You show your vulnerability through relationships and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I didn't have a financial need and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Which is I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment I think might be what love is because they both grow from their relationship.

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is what romance is and what a relationship means.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.