Quotes About Independence

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar my father gave me.

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible.

We need to give folks an opportunity, not a hand out.

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

An artist's life is to lead and not to follow and you have to take those chances.

I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.

I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct.

I always followed my own path.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

I've never followed my party... I'm no yes-man, I've never been a yes-man.

If you're just a follower, you never know why you are doing something. Then you can't know if something is good or not. How would you know that what you thought is right, if you didn't think it?

I've never been a follower, but I've been an admirer.

I am a leader, I am not a follower. I create my own path, and that way, I cannot blame anyone else if I do not succeed.

What's crazy is, my whole life I been a leader. I'm not a follower.

I don't want followers.

I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.

To say, 'Well, he's following X person, so he believes all the things that this person believes'... I think that's ridiculous.

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.