Guy Berryman Quotes

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.

Life isn't that complicated on paper. It's made more complex by the day and age we live.

People tend to complicate things in life.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.