Jackson Browne Quotes

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things.

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the world, getting old enough to be on my own. And today we have to deal with the fact that being on your own is so frightening and so scary and makes you feel so vulnerable. I wouldn't be where I am today if I had that attitude, if I had been afraid to be on my own.