Crystal Waters Quotes

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Dare to be Free.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

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.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

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

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

Freedom is control in your own life.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.