Elayne Boosler Quotes

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before.

I’m finished. Go with somebody else.

I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.

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

When you're down and have just split up from your partner everyone says you have to move forward. 'Get on with your life,' 'It's time to meet someone new,' and 'Don't think about the past' are phrases you'll hear for at least six months after the horrible event.

I think that the song 'Movin' On' can be a personal song. We've all been in relationships where we weren't necessarily happy.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

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

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

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

Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.

Breaking up a hotel room doesn't change anything.

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.

I don't really want to leave anything in life behind. We have bad experiences, we have difficult experiences, but if you leave everything behind, you have no past.

Every time I break up with a guy, I play 'Kerosene' in my car on repeat.

You have to forget about the bad memories and push on.