Quotes About Independence

When we did the whole 'Let The Lox Go' campaign we was teenagers or in our early 20s.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you.

We left our homes and moved to Nashville as teenagers, and suddenly, we were on our own. We knew all we wanted to do in the world was write and sing... and the only way that would happen would be to jump, but you still get scared or sure you've done a dumb thing.

In my late teens and early 20s, I started selling mix CDs on the street.

My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.

This quarantine life is not new to me. I've been like this from my teens.

Learning to cook at school gave me the confidence to experiment in the kitchen when I left home in my late teens - I wasn't intimidated by it.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

After getting the job at MTV, the challenge was, 'How do I start my career as a television host without people holding my dad's career over my head?' It's a very easy thing for people to look to my dad and say, 'Well, he got his job because of this.'