Alex Jones Quotes

To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.

It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision.

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

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

In an over-organized society, the individual is altogether crushed out of existence. He gains the whole wealth of social thought around him and loses his own soul.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

When you're a kid, you get all these rules and regulations coming down on your head. You've got a need to be recognized. But as time goes by, this stuff, if it remains, can kill you. The attitude alone can't sustain anyone forever.

From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.

As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.

I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.