Quotes About Simplicity

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

If I lived my life over again I would stay in the countryside. I prefer the countryside, the milking of the cows and the sheep.

I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.

There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

Stay small and control it yourself.

For me, I want to be me, stay true to that, do my thing, try to keep things simple and stay true to who I am.

My father grew up in a Norman Rockwell postcard. His mother was a stay-at-home mom, his father was a rural mailman, they had six kids.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

The things that excite me are staying home and cooking.

To me, acting is simple. People put other things in front of it, but it's staying in truth.

I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

I would rather have nothing worth stealing than live my life trying to protect things.

For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.

Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not out of a crystal stem.