Quotes About Independence

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

Coming from an Italian family, my parents had supermarkets and they said I had to take over as any son should take over the family business - I copped a lot of flak when I said 'no.'

I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.

Dhanush has been a fan of my father since his childhood. They share mutual respect for each other. Also, the fact that Dhanush made it big on his own and not because he is someone's son-in-law is something my father deeply admires.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

I like independent music because we have a lot of creative freedom to what we want, but when it comes to films we have to give a particular feel to a song because it's situational.

When I sing, I try to make the song my own and sing it my way because, in my mind, I am not following any school of thought. I just make myself free.

When we are making our independent music, we know our directors and what's happening around as we are paying for it. When it's a movie song, it's not you who is doing everything it's the creative heads and production house.

People started recording my songs. Later, I was offered songwriter contracts. And then, finally, I could take the time to work on my own project. I worked hard for this all by myself.

I'm a songwriter and producer, so I'm always wanting to make my own stuff, and not use anybody else's.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

I took a strong stand to get away from Sony Records.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.