Nicholas Gonzalez Quotes

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.

Don't run after shows and money.

Hey, I'm not rich, but I'm lucky. I get to do what I want to do. That's not an easy thing to do in this country.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

I don't feel this overwhelming pressure to play or to 'make money.' That's not my driving goal.

I'm not driven by money anymore.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

I have no agenda at all. I just want to do stuff I like. It can cost $200 million or $200 thousand.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

I just want to be self-sustainable so that I can continue to just do what I like to do and not make a million dollars. Nobody needs a million dollars.

I don't live to work; I work to live.