I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

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

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

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

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

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.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

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