Matisyahu Quotes

I'm doing what I want to do.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

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

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

Liberation is not deliverance.

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.