"I don't intend to write depressing songs and I'd probably rather write happy ones"

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“Wearing clothes that clashWondering 'is this treasure, is this trash?'Still trying to decide”

“Next door, the TV's flashingblue frames on the wall.It's a comedy from the seventieswith a lead no one recalls.He vanished into oblivionit's easy to doand I cried a sea when you talked to methe day you said we were through.But it's all right, some enchanted nightI'll be with you”

“I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I ... I'm ready.”

“Haven't laughed this hard in a long timeI better stop now before I start cryingGo off to sleep in the sunshineI don't want to see the day when its dying.”

“Drink up, baby, look at the starsI'll kiss you againBetween the barsWhere I'm seeing you thereWith your hands in the airWaiting to finally be caughtDrink up one more time and I'll make you mine...”

“London Bridge is safe and soundNo matter what you keep repeatingNothing's gonna drag me downTo a death that's not worth cheating”

Resonant Thoughts

"It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet."

— John Barrowman

Literature1967

#time

"It is a great mitzvah to be happy always."

— Nachman of Breslov

Religion1772–1810

#happiness

"She had promised him she would consider his question . But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish person, and, on her at last getting up and going rather quick…"

— Henry James

Literature1843–1916

#friendship