Quotes About Simplicity

I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

What we like to do is have family dinners at home so we don't have to have make-up on.

After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

I say things directly and to the point because I don't know anything else.

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Remember, its all about you and the dress. Nothing more, so keep the accessories very discreet.

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.

I love a good set of basic white dishes.

My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.

If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to know that it's not necessary.

I think in today's world, we're so busy, and we're so distracted. But it's also really important to slow down.

Too much clutter is a disturbance to the energy of a space for me. It's big no-no for me.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I am not really into buying a lot of expensive things.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

I don't bring anything expensive to the dorms.

I'm not attracted to expensive things.

You don't have to make things which are just expensive.

Sometimes we think that the more expensive brands will be more effective. Sometimes if you stick to the basics, that's what really matters. That's what I do anyway.