Quotes About Freedom

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

I love to go out. I can go out shopping with myself. I love to do things alone. I spend a lot of time with myself.

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

Kids only have a certain number of years to be kids, and the last thing we should be doing is incarcerating them for wanting to make that short-lived magic last.

What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

I want my kids to grow up in a country where, you know, we can still shout questions at the president.

I'm trying to show people that you can have any kind of life you want.

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

I am always running away from something.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

Why do we think the '70s were so awesome? That 'freeness' of music was there.

America's an awesome country, man. Everybody knows that.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

After getting off Bad Boy and then finally getting on with the Ruff Ryders/Interscope deal, it was like being able to exhale. The studio sessions were a lot different than the Bad Boy studio sessions. Like, we were able to just do anything we want.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.

When I was a kid, I didn't know what childhood or freedom was. I badly wanted to feel and taste freedom. Even right now if I have to choose between money and freedom, I would choose freedom.

In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any old religious baggage to carry with me. I was free to go and think what I wanted.

Your shoes and bags don't need to match always. It's perfect to be mismatched, too.

You know when you believe in Christmas? I was like that with ballet. I thought I would reach a level where I'd have enough money to bring my family back together, and I would have freedom.