Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

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

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.‘

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

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

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

All I do is make music.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.