John Perry Barlow Quotes

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

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.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

My kids learned to be independent.

I am not driven.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

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

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

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

People ought to have more control over their lives.