Quotes About Independence

I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label.

Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

I always had that get-up-and-go to work for myself - I never wanted a nine-to-five job.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

I'm just not Mr. Joe that goes to work nine-to-five. I never will be.

When I was nineteen, I moved to L.A.

I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'

I have no friends.

I just wouldn't enjoy standing there like a paper doll, having someone else stick paper dresses on me. That would be no fun.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

I have no interest in being told what to do.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.