Treasure your relationships not your possessions.

It seems essential in relationships and all tasks that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

I had lost relationships with my dad my brother and sister and I was just like you know what this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

Traits like humility courage and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy N.W.A. LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.