#Personal Life Quotes

“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

“I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.”

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

“Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.”

“Everything that happens to me gets put into a song. For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. There, I don't hold back: names, dates, times, expressions on people's faces, exactly where we were and how it felt, what I wish I would have said to them in the moment. So I'm not only excited about sharing the songs with fans; I'm also pretty interested to hear the response from the guys I've written about on the record.”

“For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.”

“Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.”

“When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my autograph; it's people breaking my heart. That happens to you whether you've sold millions of records or whether you're taking classes at college. You're going to believe people when they say that they love you. I don't leave out details when I write songs about that. I try to make my songs as personal as possible because, ultimately, my music started out as just trying to turn my diary entries into something that was a piece of music. And that has never changed.”

“If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.”

“I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.”

“For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.”

“I write songs about what I go through.”

“Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.”

“I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.”

“They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.”

“Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.”

“I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.”

“I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.”

“To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.”

“I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.”

“To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.”

“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.”

“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”

“I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.”

“I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.”

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

“My wife has dated broke black dudes.”

“I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!”

“Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.”

“Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.”

“I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.”

“I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.”

“You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.”

“In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy.”

“I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.”

“There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.”

“I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.”

“It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.”

“I have a life outside the arenas.”

“The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.”

“I have complete confidence in Secret Service. These guys and gals are unbelievably professional. They know what they’re doing and I basically do what they tell me to do. Now, sometimes I’m the first one to admit that it chafes a little bit being inside this bubble. It’s the hardest adjustment of being president, not being able to just take a walk.”

“When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.”

“I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.”

“There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.”

“The kids are a big part of my schedule.”

“When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.”

“I just miss - I miss being anonymous.”

“You know, in college, I smoked a little pot, did a little blow.”

“I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.”