Quotes About Privacy

With camera phones and, you know, iPad's and cameras at stoplights, it's like I just want to drive around with a bag on my head because I just feel like everyone's watching.

People YouTube me and crap and then, they probably don't want to see me after seeing a friendly posted YouTube video, so I'm constantly having to take those down.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

I don't get recognized too much, which is cool because, you know, I don't want people to be overwhelmed.

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.

Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

It's hard to want to let somebody into your house.

Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, "Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?"

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!

I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.