Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I have the space and liberty to create.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Music is in my DNA!

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‚Happy Birthday.‘

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.