“There's too much pain and uncertainty in the world. You should seize happiness whenever it comes, and hold onto it for as long as you can.”
“Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.”
“You remember too much,my mother said to me recently.Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”
“Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along--that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone.”
“If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is”
“Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.”