Jane Birkin Quotes

To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.

I was adored once too.

'Mr. Majnu' is a modern and passionate love and he loves to be around girls, they love him too. But, I'm nothing like that in real life.

I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.

I didn't fall in love with boys - but a few men have been in love with me.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?