Quotes About Self-reliance

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Argentina should grow with a project of its own and implemented by Argentines, not dictated by foreigners with old recipes that always fail.

I always want to be recognised for the work I do and not the company I keep.

There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'

Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.

I am building an archive. I don't need for anyone to tell me that I matter. I am just going to record it for myself.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.

I made this record without a record label.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I did my first album with my own record label.

I'd been doing my own thing, and making my own money; I wasn't built by a record label or the music industry, nor was I built by prominent artists that have given me co-signs.

Unless you've given up your business to a record label, there's no such thing as just being a musician anymore.

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally.