Quotes About Autonomy

I'm not bothered by the food Nazis. Customers ought to be able to pick what they want to eat.

I like to pick my causes and not be forced into doing something.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single.

People come to me and they're like, 'You're hand picking fighters.' I don't pick my fights.

I'm picking and choosing what I want to do.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn't spend it - especially if she doesn't spend it.

People try to turn you into something if they can't pin you down.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars.

Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.