Quotes About Independence

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

We don't need union bosses to tell us how to take care of our people. We never have, and we never will in Mississippi.

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country - and it has never made any sense to me that choices about what to put into our own bodies aren't ours and ours alone.

Activision has their own games. Blizzard has our own games. We're not going to go in and fire their people and they aren't going to come in and fire any of ours.

Ours is one of the last independent companies that offer a place you may write down your thoughts free from having to worry about whether they are offensive to one group or another.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

At the end of the day, I'm out of here - above anything.

I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.

I was seven years old when my dad first showed me how to cut the grass. It was a big job for a kid my age. We had a pretty decent-sized backyard. It was on a hill - tough to mow. But I cut it so good. I double-cut it. I cut it at an angle, then cut across it at another angle, like a checkerboard. The way I'd seen in the outfield at baseball games.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't need to explain my outfits.

I'm really outgoing, but there's times I want to be by myself.