Quotes About Contentment

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I do not chase after the records.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

I've never chased records.

Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.

I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.

My goal was never to sell many records.

In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

You have to be able to wake up every day and be happy with what your decision in life is, and that's why I never recruit.

There's something rich and nourishing in the mundane - that isn't sparkly or red carpet.

I really like red hair. I think if you have brown hair, you want blond hair; if you have blond hair, you want blue hair. We always want what we don't have. It takes a while to admit, Hey, it's just part of me.

Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I'll settle down.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

I pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that's all I ever want to do.

I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there.

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

'Maya Nadhi' is the best thing that has happened to me.

So many blessings have happened to me and I'm so grateful.

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.