Michael Pollan Quotes

I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

I get a lot of comments from people that I'm just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.

People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

I'm just like the girl next door.

I just try to keep that connection to normalcy. I never want to lose that, being normal. People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy. I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

I've never viewed myself as above anybody else or anything like that. I'm a regular guy at the end of the day. I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and The Powerpuff Girls.

I've never been the guy to go for the celebrity girl. I've always liked regular girls, regular people, because I've always viewed myself as a regular person who just happens to be gifted in music.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

I don't feel famous personally, and I feel like when most people get to know me, they're like, 'Oh, she's just the same as everybody else.'

I'm a simple guy.

I am from Des Moines, Iowa - not even the city but out in the country. I don't have a lot of trappings, I think, in my personality. I'm just a simple person with a silly bone.

I don't want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.

I am quite a down-to-earth person.

I'm a 'no frills' kind of guy.

I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.

I'm a normal lad. I've always been quite humble, and I like simple things.

For me everything in life is just basic - really simple, down-to-earth. I am a total family person.

I am not a very complex person. I believe in simplicity.