Dan Levy Quotes

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

I did my solo thing for a while and got that out of my system.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.