Quotes About Simplicity

I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up.

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

Small towns are so rich.

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

I grew up in small towns in Iowa and the Midwest.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

I have a few toys. But I live very simply.