Quotes About Autonomy

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

I'm my own stylist. Always! I don't wanna hire someone to chose what I should wear. At the same time, I do always wanna wear some crazy clothes.

I do like things the way that I like them. But I'm trying not to be - I don't wanna be that way. I'm not a control freak; I wanna protect my agency. It's a weird question as a black woman.

I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better.

I don't like to be put into a box. I don't wanna be given a title - nothing.

I do what I wanna do and I see who I wanna see. And when you get into your forties, it's like being a teenager again, really. Everyone else in their forties thinks they can chat to you.

I guess I'm just comfortable in my own skin. Whatever I want to do, I can do. If I don't wanna do something, I won't do it. I'm confident in myself.

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

I do what I want, when I want.

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

I don't want to name my fandom, I want them to name themselves. If I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

I never wanted to be in a gang. I didn't want to follow anybody's orders.

I wanted to have a free life.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

I've always known what I wanted for myself. I was 10 years old when I said nobody is going to be the boss of me. And I shocked a lot of people with that statement. I mean, I can barely listen to my own mother - how am I going to have a boss, you know?

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

But that was our thing from day one: to make Paper Route Empire strong. That's why I never wanted to sign to no label.

I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thought it was demeaning. I was this ridiculous little kid.

When my husband and I are getting into a taxi, I always stop the taxi and say where I want to go. My husband jumps in the car and says, 'This is where we are going.' That's the same when men and women approach wanting to become a candidate.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.