Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.
I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.
If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
I've seen signs of life with regards to bipartisan support for criminal justice reform, but the support does not reflect the necessary urgency for real reform. This must be made a priority.
'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.
That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
