Quotes About Freedom

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

I can do whatever I want.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.