Quotes About Independence

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

We didn't leave home until we graduated high school, but when we did, we genuinely left. We went out into the world with 50 bucks, backpacks, and acoustic guitars.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

The most important thing I tell my players is to play their own game and show guts.

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.

I've always been a gypsy.

I've lived a gypsy life and wouldn't know any other way to live.

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

I love being able to play myself if I fancy, and take myself off as soon as I've had enough.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the '80s. It was all about power women.

My worst haircuts have been the ones where I've done my own.

I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.

I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

I don't want to get someone in my life who is going to hamper my state of mind.

There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.

I'm a very light packer. I don't like checking in luggage. I only like hand luggage.

I can clap with one hand.