Songs About Independence

My Life by Billy Joel 1978

A plain refusal to let anyone tell him how to live it.

It's My Life by Bon Jovi 2000

Now or never, and no one else gets a vote.

Miss Independent by Kelly Clarkson 2003

A woman who built her own life, learning to let love in too.

I Want to Break Free by Queen 1984

Throwing off whatever has been holding you in place.

Wide Open Spaces by The Chicks 1998

A young woman leaving home to find room of her own.

Bills, Bills, Bills by Destiny's Child 1999

No interest in carrying anyone who will not carry himself.

I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross 1980

A bold announcement that she is here on her own terms.

Man! I Feel Like a Woman! by Shania Twain 1997

A night out that answers to nobody.

Free Your Mind by En Vogue 1992

Independence of thought as a hard-rock demand.

I'm Every Woman by Chaka Khan 1978

Self-sufficiency turned into a strut.

Ain't Got No, I Got Life by Nina Simone 1968

Owning almost nothing and finding it is more than enough.

Takin' Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive 1973

Working your own way, on your own clock.