Quotes About Independence

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

I can do whatever I want.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.