“Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.”
“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”
“Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.”
“But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?”
“Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.”
“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange — ”