Quotes About Fulfillment

I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'

I'm always working and recording. It's just what makes me happy.

I'm happy to be recording and singing live. I have a great family, and a great bunch of people always come and see me sing. What more does a man need?

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

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.

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

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 went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.

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.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

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.

I'm worried because a lot of coaches aren't having fun. They're miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.

The Ivory Coast had been begging for ages. The country and the fans love me already, and I haven't even done anything. I may not get the red carpet - it may not have the same Nike deals as when you play for England - but I'm going to be playing, I'm going to be loved, and that's all I want. Nothing else.

As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.

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

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

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.

I like working more than I like being at home. Facing that fact is incredibly difficult to handle, because what kind of person likes working more than being at home?