Quotes About Independence

Fashion bloggers will do their work; it's their job. So let them do it. I am not doing something to make them happy or to get friendly with them so that they write good stuff about me.

The Boss doesn't need friends, but the ones I do have, I keep very close.

We all have friends and family who see one path for us, and we go a different path, and it's not necessarily what they would have wanted.

There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.

I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.

I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.'

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

I feel that Indian women are too frightened. They all say, 'I can't do this, I can't do that.' Worse, their families don't support them.

When I left home at 17, I became successful astronomically fast. But I think my parents were so frightened of me failing that they focused on that more than my success.

The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.

I don't like feeling like it's not up to me when I'm working and when I'm not. Not feeling complete freedom... that's frustrating.

It's been frustrating that people only saw me as a 'featured artist' for a while, but in terms of making an album, it's been quite a nice, unpressurised environment to write songs and pick the best ones.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination.

Anyone who seriously wants to keep Scotland in the U.K. must seek to stop the rise of the SNP, not to fuel and encourage it.

I chase dreams that fulfill me and not a dream that somebody else describes to me.

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

I often work 14-hour days, but the job is very fulfilling. I love being my own boss.

My mother looked after me full-time when I was young, but as soon as I started school, she got a job in an office.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

even my different drummer heard a different drummer

There is no such thing as a fallen woman; when she steps out of her place, she always steps up.