Quotes About Independence

They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.

Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

I don't live the single life and never really did.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own geodetic dome full of your jumpsuited followers.

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.