Quotes About Simplicity

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

You can't get a phone any more that just makes phone calls. And that's all I want to use it for.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

People say that they can't leave their homes without their phones; well, I can.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think I've been able to maintain that. I'm a totally normal person, I don't get followed or have photographers waiting outside my door. So yes I have a very ordinary life.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.