Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
Time runs the fastest when it is independent of everything.
Time runs the fastest when it is independent of the universe.
I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.
The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.
I have a very independent spirit.
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.
I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.
I am truly independently owned and operated.
I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.
