James Ellroy Quotes

I look great because I'm happy.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

It's not a bad time to be me.

I don't think there's anything I'm not proud of. I'm happy with pretty much everything I've done.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

I didn't get rich and famous, but I do what I love.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

Now I have a very good life and I am very proud of my work.

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

People tend to look great if they feel great.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.

What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.

I don't mean to be cocky, but if I'm never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

I guess I'd rather be comfortable and play well because I'm comfortable than to get recognition and play someplace where I wouldn't be comfortable and wouldn't enjoy myself.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before.