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I want to be free... free to develop my art.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

If you're famous, you're not free.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.