Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I invented myself.