Autonomy

“Myself. Right now, I’m the only person that can stop me.”

“The more I feel I am being pushed into a mold, the more I feel like going in the opposite direction.”

“I have the inner confidence to walk away from the crowd and chart my own course.”

“What I want to do is I just want to live freely.”

“أظرف الناس في رأيي من لا يتدخل فيما لا يعنيه.”

“I'm giving myself the permission to be José, to be focusing on myself.”

“It was really important for me to be my own person and to be unique to who I am.”

“In Dunedin they accept I am a painter and leave me to go about my work.”

“I have this terrible urge to get away from the hustle and bustle and be alone to do what I want to do.”

“Complete freedom starts within yourself and then it goes without.”

“I never put those labels or identity metrics on myself.”

“To try to think for yourself.”

“I’m not willing to trample on people that have less autonomy over their bodies and less safety in the world than me in order to ‘protect myself’.””

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

“I did what I liked and refused what I didn't like. That's all.”

“Digo lo que tengo ganas. No soy un payaso que anima la fiestita.”

“I didn’t want to have success on somebody else's terms. Everything I wanted to do, I wanted to own it. I wanted it to be mine.”

“世間から何といわれても自分の思うところは一歩も枉げない、知己は百年の後に一人得ればよい”