Quotes About Simplicity

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

It's the polar opposite of most people, but I absolutely hate carrying a ton of stuff onto a plane. I check in all my luggage and literally go through security with nothing other than my coat, in which I have my iPhone and iPad.

I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.

I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford.

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there's simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone.

I like to let my skin breath as much as possible on my days off, when I don't have to wear full or heavy make-up. So I just apply it as a moisturiser, knowing that it's going to even out my skin tone and give me SPF 15 coverage, too.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about.

My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.

I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.

In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious - living minimally is.

I want to live a normal life - drive my kids to school, have tons of animals running around, be barefoot and pregnant. I want all that.

One of my beauty secrets is - whenever you can - try to wear no makeup at all! Putting tons of makeup on is not good for your skin.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

You don't see too many people on a farm. I didn't grow up dealing with a lot of people.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

We think too much and feel too little.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.