I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.
If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.
I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me.
I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.
I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
