To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

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.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

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

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

There is spontaneity to my work.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I like Cardi B!

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

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.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

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’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.