Ronnie Wood Quotes

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

When I came out, everybody in my life that said they loved me unconditionally turned around and said, 'Never mind!'

I've been dumped plenty of times, I can assure you of that.

'Oh, Daddy,' was a remake of the Ritchie Valens' song 'Oh Donna,' and I really like that one because it's a story of a pregnant woman who was dumped by her baby daddy, but she was always waiting for him. It's a sweet-and-sour situation.

You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

I was in love with someone very much, but he didn't love me and never would. I had a very difficult time accepting that. But I had hurt him very much, and I could see why he could never love me.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.