Quotes About Independence

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

I like popping my own pimple, so I feel like when I go and get a facial and they do it for me, it's really annoying. I'd rather do it myself.

Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I can't do something just because it's popular.

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption is that most people think something that is wrong, which is great.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

I've never courted popularity.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.