Quotes About Joy

The lines I'm referring to, Lewis, are that Triumph and Disaster are the same. They're both impostors because they are momentary. More important is becoming a man of convictions. Lasting joy comes from that.

I sing at home all the time with my kids and my husband, and I will write music together. It's kind of a very intimate thing for me.

Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

'Fiancee' is a very fun word to say, because I never thought I would have a fiancee or be a fiancee. Sometimes when I would introduce myself and say, 'This is my girlfriend Melanie,' it wasn't always clear what I meant. Now I get to say, 'This is my fiancee Melanie.'

We were poor, yea, but I can't say there was anything terrible about my youth. It was a Manhattan kind of life. There were lots of kids on the block, and we played in the back lots. We invented games and skated and played ball.

Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

My philosophy is, involve your family in whatever you do. Nothing gives you more joy.

I make playlists on my iPod like nobody's business!

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

Whenever I returned after winning a race, my friends in the Army would lift me on their shoulders and break into Bhangra, irrespective of whether they knew the dance or not.

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

I will say I am itching for some babyface-ness in my life.

My brother, Jackie, and I used to dance all the time.

My mom and I used to dance to the Jackson 5 in our living room.

We saw Michael Jackson and we said, we want to experience what it is to be Michael Jackson-esque. Just entertaining the people and making the world feel happy and dance.

We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

Rom-coms are my jam.

James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work.

I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.