Quotes About Simplicity

It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

I think in a way that's part of getting older, appreciating the simple pleasures of being in the garden.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

I hate plots.

I like to just plug in and play; I don't use a lot of effects.

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.

I don't like to carry things in my pockets.

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

I like clarity in what I do.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

With great writing, there is great clarity.

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

Spending less time on cleaning or shopping means I have more time to spend with friends, go out, or travel on my days off.