Charles Bukowski Quotes

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

I represent the working people. I’m not what you’d call a wine and cheese type of guy.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

I think once you meet me, you realize I'm not necessarily some soft yoga guy. I've been on the picket line. I've been in the union halls. I'll drink a Miller Lite with you.

DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.

I love playing the common man.

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

He still works in the local leisure centre and he's the union rep and a shop steward. Dad is very grounded. He's not bumptious or brash.

I don't' really have lots of hobbies. I like to read and hang out with my family. I'm a pretty boring person beyond that.

I ain't flash. I'm just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London.

Everybody was a democrat where we grew up. It was a blue-collar town and the democrats represented the working class and the unions. But very, very super-conservative Catholic, very proud immigrant community, very stoic.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

I've never felt like a pop star - this is a nine-to-five sort of gig. It comes from working in the factories, that world. You don't forget it.

I knew she was famous, but she was my mom, a regular mom.

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.

I'm just a normal lad.

I think we're a working man's band.