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

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

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!‘

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

My whole life is a theater piece.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

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

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Money ain’t everything.

I’m a free spirit.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

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

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.