Quotes About Independence

Originally my entire goal with music was for it to be my job. When I sit down to make a beat, I wanna know that I'm gonna get paid from it, and that I can pay my bills and still have money left over to be a person.

I do what I wanna do and I see who I wanna see. And when you get into your forties, it's like being a teenager again, really. Everyone else in their forties thinks they can chat to you.

Diddy was trying to squeeze the life out of me. I felt like I don't wanna keep giving him my bars. Cause he's taking from my tank. I need all of these bars.

I guess I'm just comfortable in my own skin. Whatever I want to do, I can do. If I don't wanna do something, I won't do it. I'm confident in myself.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

I do what I want, when I want.

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.

I never wanted to be in a gang. I didn't want to follow anybody's orders.

My parents told me if I wanted to fight, they wouldn't support me.

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.