Quotes About Independence

I don't usually collab with producers, because I don't need to. I never have, because I don't want to break my style of how I do things.

I can't be bullied by producers.

I do not want to waste my time by counting films of other producers as I have better things to perform.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Nobody really produces my albums.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!

I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

I have my own production house, which is doing good.

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.