Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.
If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.
Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.
Those who know me know I'm not a person who has a flashy lifestyle.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
I am not an over-the-top kind of person.
I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting.
I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.
I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.
There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.
I'm not going to shout at the cameras. I just work hard and fight and that is all I can do and all I can be.
I'm generally a low-key guy.
True simplicity is elegant.
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
I'm not a showy kind of player.
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
I've never been very flashy or high-profile.
