Ann Wilson Quotes

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

There were two paths I was on: pre- and post-meeting my wife. I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't have headshots until I met her.

Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

People often ask whether marriage has changed me. I didn't marry because I had to change.

I never thought that I would get married, but it wound up happening. That was a really, really happy, exciting moment.

Yes, life has certainly changed post my engagement.

When I met my wife, I felt as though I really had something to play for, and my career went to another level after that.

I just think falling in love and being married completely changes your life in so many ways.

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.

Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.