Quotes About Freedom

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent. He does not need to dress homosexual.

I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others perceive them.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

I'm not trying to come back and change the perception of what people think about me. They can think what they want to, man.

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

I had English grammar book and started to teach myself. I read 'Catcher in Rye,' in Russian. I was amazed at freedom in 'Catcher in Rye!' Freedom to have those perceptions of life!

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

Imperfection is the new perfection.

People who are perfectionists always want to control everything, but when you sing, you have to let go. And that's hard.

I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it's perfectly normal.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.