Ruben Studdard Quotes

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride. The book is about finding their way back to each other, growing as people, and inventing a life they can share.

A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

I have had my share of relationships and broken hearts, so there has been a proper balance in life.

It's quite an easy way to write a concept album about love. Everything boils down to love in the end.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering.

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.