Quotes About Independence

You know I'm 27, but I've been traveling since I was 16, 17 years old. You see a lot of things, you hear a lot of things, and it definitely matures you a lot faster than it would other people. I think in that case it's definitely made me a stronger person.

I am a loner so I prefer traveling alone.

Traveling solo makes you more responsible.

You know, it was only by traveling that I started to mature and to make my own choices, learn how to deal with people and understand how the industry works.

You gain more and more confidence every time you go through tougher situations like traveling alone and sleeping alone.

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

I wear jeans and shorts. I travelled on my own to Mumbai for my knee surgery. I can go to Delhi when I want. Being a sportsperson helps me get away from the bhed bhav of Haryana.

I have been in Bombay for the last 18 years; I have been on my own. I have travelled wherever I've wanted to.

Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.

I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

I don't like travelling in groups. I like doing my own thing. I am quite a loner, actually.

When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.

Travelling by myself is always more of an adventure: I meet more people. I experience the place to the fullest. I'm on my own schedule.

I've enjoyed being a single person, particularly because I'm travelling a lot. It would be hard to maintain a relationship - so I've really not tried.

At the end of the day, it's not the labels buying the music: it's the people out there, and you have to be behind the music and not anyone else. You're the one representing it, you're playing it for everyone; you're doing promotion and travelling around the world.