Noelle Stevenson Quotes

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

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

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

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

I'm always independent. No boss.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.

I like to control my own personal life.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

I want everything that I've worked for to go into my pocket. I want all my money to come to me. I'm very much hands-on with my career, and I like to do what I want in the studio - I don't like being told, 'do it this way' or 'do it that way.'

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

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

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.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I want to go out on my terms.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

I'm not a control maniac.