Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.
Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.
Man wants little, nor that little long.
I'm pretty low-maintenance.
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.
I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.
Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.
I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
The more you know, the less you need.
I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.
I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.
I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
