I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl the life I had before - being single in a band girls everywhere - would be over.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony style joy and dignity he creates in his marriage and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar and my fans would not respect me if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy and that is marriage. I think for instance that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

Marriage is this grand madness and I think if people knew that they would perhaps take it more seriously.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Before marriage a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called you know domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Another argument vaguer and even less persuasive is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes or staring when you were in a fit of laughter would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

If it were not for the presents an elopement would be preferable.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars would sign over half to me and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

At the end of the day you know love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us than them that love us more than we would have them do.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

I love you and because I love you I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.