The enemy's own punishment is his envy.
It's for her own good that the cat purrs.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Trust in God, but mind your own business.
Your own guilt is your own fault.
Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.
I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
I want you to move in with me, man." "Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?
