Adrianne Lenker Quotes

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.

I was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

The military was appealing because I could just get away and do my own thing. I could have a roof over my head, be fed, and with the little bit of money I got, I could start to build me own life as I wanted to.

I'm doing very well outside the cage.

I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.

We lived on our own for a very long time, and those are my happiest years, me and my mom.

When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself.

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.

No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.