Quotes About Autonomy

I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

I made this record without a record label.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I'd been doing my own thing, and making my own money; I wasn't built by a record label or the music industry, nor was I built by prominent artists that have given me co-signs.

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge and promised me a number one hit with it I'd still say no. That, for me, is not the kind of success I want.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

I find making records by myself incredibly boring.

Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.

The world is fixated on defining and redefining what is feminine. That is for every individual to decide for herself.

When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways.

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

I don't want to reclaim the word 'tranny.' I don't want anyone to refer to me as 'tranny.'

The reason I say 'never say never' is because I do not think that there should be another independence referendum in Scotland - I do not think it's in their interest - but on the other hand, I am a big believer in devolution.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.