Unadulterated Quotes

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

I don't ever want to lose my rawness or whatever. That makes a person special.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

There's this raw, basic quality people expect in my music.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

When I say things, when I speak on television, I'm not making stuff up. I'm not, like, sitting in the back with a notepad thinking, 'Maybe this will make them think I'm crazy'. That's how I really am, you know? My views on this and that, which I really don't want to delve into, but my views are that of the real me. There is no character.

I've always aimed to create something pure.

I'm being my real raw self, and that's what I always preach anyway. What you see is what you get.

My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.