Quotes About Self-reliance

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

People say that they can't leave their homes without their phones; well, I can.

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.

I have a lot of faith in myself. Physically, I could drive forever.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

I'll be an independent contractor and I'm going to make sure that I am my own boss, that I pick my own hours. I'm going to make my own business decisions.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

I have to back myself and think if I'm big enough to be picked by Everton and exposed in that situation, then I'm old enough to take whatever comes with it. That's the way I kind of see it.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.

I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.