Tom Jones Quotes

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I choose to express myself.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.