Quotes About Autonomy

Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Peas, it's Zumbao. Zumbao is different from the Peas because it's all on me and I can't feed off of anybody other than me.

When a driverless car looks out on the world, it's not able to distinguish the age of a pedestrian or the number of occupants in a car.

I'm not into having a pedigree dog.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

By nature, a woman is independent though she can have bindings. But, she is a lone performer.

When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that they had their own identity.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.

We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in in peril.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.