Pietro Aretino Quotes

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

I'm proud of my independence. And certainly from a business perspective, that's always been a main agenda for me - to make my own position, don't try and be like somebody else, because there already is that somebody else.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I'm Thalia on my own.

All I've ever needed is myself.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I'm not driven by being understood.

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.

I am my own woman.