Quotes About Self-reliance

My first album, I had to write everything. Nobody was going to send me stuff just because I had a little success.

I didn't have my first car until after the end of my senior year. I got a Yukon Sport.

Look, I am not really that sensitive of a guy. I don't get hurt by a lot of things.

I know how to separate my own laundry.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

I'm not BJP's servant.

In high school, I think I served almost an entire match by myself.

I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are on what people say. That's ultimately building your foundation in sand.

It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.

I tote around that big ol' sewing machine with me everywhere I go.

Strong is sexy.

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.

I sew my own shoes - I don't trust anyone else to sew the ribbons exactly how I like them.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

When you're by yourself you have to sort out everything like the shopping and looking after the house.

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.

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.