Matt Barnes Quotes

If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore.

I really don't feel like playing anymore.

Politics is not my cup of tea.

I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.

In all honesty, I'm not interested in records.

I just lost interest in performing.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.