Quotes About Simplicity

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

Being reasonably direct about what you're doing, being comfortable, is the best way to do things.

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

I'm very simple when it comes to gifts, so the best ones that I've received have love as their main intention. I appreciate everything.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

On TV, I really try to go back to the basics and break down a recipe until it's very easy.

The funny thing about bowl recipes is, despite how simple they might seem, they can actually be a lot of work.

My books are easy to use and real - and guess what, I sometimes use convenience food in my recipes!

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

Recipes are overrated.

I know how to bring recipes down to the level where people with no experience can feel comfortable making them.

I love slow cooker recipes - especially during the fall.

I don't need any more recognition. I don't need any more money. I don't need any legacy.

I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.

I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

It's my third boy in less than three years so there wasn't a lot to do. Hand-me-downs from my other children. I'm recycling so it was a very easy thing.