Justin Vernon Quotes

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

I've stopped caring what people think.

Some experiences can give you a chip on your shoulder, but they also teach you the value of independence and looking out for yourself.

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.

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.

I've never been the sort of guy who wants to emulate this guy or that guy. I just try to forge my own path.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

Everyone just needs to be his own man.

He is absolutely on his own, and we never interfere in any of his decisions. When Ranbir joined the industry, he told his mother that he wanted to portray characters which a boy of his age would do in real life.

I am my own man now; I can think for myself, whereas when I was 20, 21, I always wanted to please others.

My mother has brought me up in a manner that has allowed me to retain my values, ideologies, and philosophies. I was let loose, just enough to develop an individual personality.

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.

I live by my own values and if I'm appreciated for the qualities I value, that is enough for me.

Being single isn't all that bad, as you can be selfish and focus on yourself and your career.

I was always extremely independent growing up.

I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it's because of that I am who I am now.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.

Moving away from home was the biggest challenge. Leaving my mum and my sisters behind, I miss them a lot. But I wanted to do what was best for me, and that was what I did.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.