Quotes About Simplicity

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

I'm just a normal person, believe me.

I just want to be a normal person.

I don't want to be stuck up. I'm just a normal person. My friends think of me as a normal friend, and I like that.

I'm really happy doing normal things.

I am a very simple man. I love normality, and I love normal people. I love to eat normal food. It's how I grew up.

Normally, I never dress up.

I'm normally a burger and chips girl - such a cheap date.

I'm normally the least busy person I know.

I don't normally get too excited. I just - yeah, I just try and keep it pretty simple, and that's just my personality, really.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.

With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If I can, then it's a song I ought to record. If I can't, it's probably not good enough.

I'm not interested in the limelight.

I'm not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

I'm not interested in fame at all.

We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

I don't know one note from another.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.