Vegas means comedy tragedy happiness and sadness all at the same time.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Sadness is a very interesting idea this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness and the idea that sadness is very loud and happiness is quiet.

Some days are just bad days that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day that's just the way it is!

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears happiness or sadness.

We never taste happiness in perfection our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.