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.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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!

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.

There is no wealth but life.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

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

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.