Linda Thompson Quotes

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

I don't talk a lot about myself.

I don't like talking about myself.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of my life private, even in a public forum like writing.

I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'