Quotes About Independence

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

One consistent good thing I can say about the music industry is that at least I can make music freely now, and I don't have to do it when I'm off of a nine to five shift or something.

I've always felt like I'm on the outside of the music industry.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized. And when you have colonization, what do you have? You have anti-colonization.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Dad has been my guiding force. Whenever I am confused about choosing a script, I discuss it with him. However, I have said 'no' to scripts he agreed to, while he has said 'yes,' too, for scripts I have turned down. We have this mutual understanding that works between us.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls.

I had never thought about living with a girlfriend as a roommate post-divorce, but when I decided to come back to New York and move in with my friend Sonja Morgan, it ended up being the best decision I ever made.

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.

Everyone always says, 'You must have always wanted to be just like your dad.' But my dad's career had nothing to do with my journey.

Coming back to Delhi is always special. This is the place I'd started my journey from and became independent. Be it my career or my education, I learnt everything about life from this city, and it has made me who I am today.

I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

I just want to create my own history.