Calvin Johnson Quotes

I have a hard time getting over an ex. Getting over an ex is just hard, period.

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

No man is worth sulking over.

I never understood girls who give away jewelry just because it came from an ex. I consider it compensation.

Everyone wants to talk about terrible breakups. Breakups are horrible, they're relatable, and people do them badly. Everyone has a story of a terrible breakup.

I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute.

It's powerful for a guy to know your exes have regrets.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.

I've been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I've also been on the other end of that too.

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

The next day Bill Buckley sent me a letter stating that he never wanted to see me again. I found that acceptable.

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

I'm not friends with a lot of my exes, and I think there's a reason for that.

I met a girl, and two months after we met I wrote 'Nevermind.' And 'Never Go Back' is actually a song I wrote two or three days after the breakup, after a year and a half. Straight continuation of the story.

It's better to keep your past and present loves separate.

Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.

Being dumped sucks, period.

I'll probably continue to write about heartbreak forever. That stuff doesn't go away as you get older.

The past relationship with Simpson no longer exists, and my views on that subject have already been expressed.