Quotes About Materialism

I am embarrassed to say that I regularly wake up to a message from my Matchesfashion.com personal shopper, saying, 'Hey, it's Charlene, just letting you know about this handbag before everyone else!'

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will make some kind of change.

The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

I own three homes. I drive a Jeep. I'm cool with that.

If you have seven homes, every room is not a beautifully curated expression of your personality.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

I bought quite a few houses and cars.

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

I can remember watching MTV Cribs - these amazing houses - and looking around my house where there was no carpet on the floors. You feel hopeless, and that can manifest itself in all kinds of emotions: sadness can turn to anger, and anger might turn to aggression.

I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be 'alright', to have enough money to be able to live on, to go to the cinema when I wanted to, and buy the books I wanted to read.

While other people were dreaming of big cars and houses, I just wanted a huge dressing room.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

Some people, no matter how much money they have, they want to keep it for themselves.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.