Cupcakke Quotes

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

I'm going to do what I want, get my money and go home.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

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'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

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

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I can do whatever I want, because my career is a certain thing.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.