Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Weve all got our self destructive bad habits the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

The Breakfast of Champions isnt cereal its the competition

I used to have a drug problem now I make enough money.

Music is like girlfriends to me Im continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.