Quotes About Autonomy

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

I am single, successful, and reasonably attractive. Whether I decide to have relationships that end in taking the plunge or not, they are my decisions.

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

I don't let the fans rule my world and rule what I do, or how I do it, because as artists we give what we give and you receive how you want to receive.

I like to do things in my own way and have my own personal language, but I can't control how it's received.

When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

Argentina should grow with a project of its own and implemented by Argentines, not dictated by foreigners with old recipes that always fail.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.