Quotes About Autonomy

I make moves on my terms.

I mow my own lawn.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I always felt independent of musical fashion.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I'm a free bird and I follow my own rules.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.