Quotes About Independence

I was such a scared cling-on-to-my-mum's-leg kind of girl, even when I was 15, 16. If I was in McDonald's and I needed ketchup, I wouldn't go up and ask. I'd be too shy.

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

I hitchhiked to L.A. with $100 and a keyboard.

I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

For me, I usually play the kick -butt, strong business type.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.

I almost got kicked out of eighth grade for selling 'Playboy.'

I wanted to retire on my own terms. I wanted to leave before they kicked me out.

I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.

Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.

'Who Do You Love' was kinda cool to make. I just made the beat; I was self-determined to make beats at the time.

I would like to say that OVO, me being on OVO, they kinda protect me from the industry, so I'm not around it. I'm not around it unless I choose to be, or unless I ask to be.

The Afghan people do not take kindly to conquerors.

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.