Quotes About Freedom

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

We champion freedom - but Brexit will mean the next generation is less free to live, work and love across Europe.

I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

As a kid, I hated home, and I just wanted so much to learn or do something that could take me away and keep me away forever. And then I got blessed to get to make music and meet people who wanted to work with me. And then, the next thing I knew, I was on the road, and I was gone.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

The nice thing about working with BOOM! on 'Irredeemable' and 'Incorruptible,' man, was they let me have my head. No one said boo about anything.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.

My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.

Imagine what Nigeria could do for Africa if it was also free of Boko Haram's violence.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

I will go out and have some fun. You can't lock yourself away forever. But it's not me you'll see stumbling out of nightclubs.

People that come to the fair have a certain freedom you don't find in the nightclubs. They come to have a good time.

What I had heard about TV is that it's very rigid - that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically - and that's my worst nightmare. I don't work well in rigid environments.

I let 'The Nightmare' go. To me, I feel a negative in it. I don't like it. It's kind of evil. I don't want to represent that.

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I always had that get-up-and-go to work for myself - I never wanted a nine-to-five job.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

I sleep as much as I want. I'll sleep, like, 11 hours, unless I'm working. Sometimes I do feel like, 'This is weird; I should just get up so I can fit into the world.' Then I'm like, 'Why?' I don't have a nine-to-five job.