Jackson Browne Quotes

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he's feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don't seem to have the first clue.

I thought there was something intrinsically fascinating about people who communicate for a living and are incapable of communicating in their personal lives.