If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.
People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.
Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.
I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.
The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?
Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen.
I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.
I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.
I'm happy single, but I'm happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I'm more successful when I'm single.
I'm just happy I'm not a phony.
I am happy to have now as Danny finally a more difficult role, in which I can shoot and fight.
It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
I want to work and be happy.
Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.
I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.