Quotes About Independence

Socks may eat wherever they want to.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.