Neneh Cherry Quotes

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

I'm happy without money.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I live way below my means.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

I'm not really interested in making money.