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

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

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

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

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.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

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.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

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

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Kanye West is my favorite artist.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

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.

Music is like film to me.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

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.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

No, I can’t do rap music!

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.