Quotes About Freedom

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.

It's okay to be a freak.

I feel limited in some ways because I have such young fans. But I'm okay with that; I do everything I want to do.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

I love, love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.

I looked at my mom and her life, and I thought, 'I don't want that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As soon as we were old enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don't know where their next dime is coming from.

I'm happy to be selfish now. That's the beauty of getting older.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

I've been on and off motorbikes most of my life.

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.