Quotes About Independence

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

I always have my backpack.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.

After getting off Bad Boy and then finally getting on with the Ruff Ryders/Interscope deal, it was like being able to exhale. The studio sessions were a lot different than the Bad Boy studio sessions. Like, we were able to just do anything we want.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

When I was a kid, I didn't know what childhood or freedom was. I badly wanted to feel and taste freedom. Even right now if I have to choose between money and freedom, I would choose freedom.

Our mums came on tour and mine was baffled by it all. She kept saying in the car: 'You just do this on your own? Don't you want to be with people? This is so lonely!' I guess we're just used to it. It is a funny little world.

I used to lug a massive bag of CDs everywhere.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

I was afraid when I came to the Royal Ballet that it would be easy to have everyone walking all over me if I didn't stick up for myself.

Ballroom is a man's world. It's tough for women, particularly single women. But I've never expected life to be anything but tough.

No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

I never looked at being second banana to anybody, I never felt that way, ever. If other people did, that's the way they looked at it, but I never did.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general feeling that if we were to break away it would be game over and we would be bankrupt. If that is the case then that's exactly what we should do. Why are we, a country that would be bankrupt, leaching off another one?

Sasha Banks's success has absolutely nothing to do with me.

There is life beyond Barcelona.

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

We can barely deal with men who set their own rules; to ask us to accept a woman who is individualistic, passionate, beautiful and yes, possibly annoyingly arrogant, makes us just a little nervous.