Quotes About Freedom

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

I forget myself when I dance.

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.

When I felt real forgiveness, my heart was set free.

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

It's a lot of people that died for me to have the opportunity that I have now, just the freedom. It shouldn't be forgotten as far as the past is concerned.

One of the things I did learn from 'The Epic' was that we don't have to feel so much pressure to conform to set formats. A song doesn't have to be three minutes and 30 seconds.

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

There's no formula.

I have this brand, I have my name. And I'm going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don't tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don't.

I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.

Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

I've always fought any form of censorship.