Quotes About Freedom

I'm not a gay rights activist.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

You know, in Russia we say there are three things you can't choose: your parents, your gender and your president.

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

Gender is a shackle.

Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.

You can be any gender you choose on any given day.

I don't think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis as hip-hop.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.

I don't write to a genre.

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.