Adrian Younge
Adrian Younge

As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.

Alessandro Nivola
Alessandro Nivola

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.

Alexandra Elbakyan
Alexandra Elbakyan

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.

Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart

In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.

Allan Savory
Allan Savory

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

Amanda Lindhout
Amanda Lindhout

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.

Anne Hegerty
Anne Hegerty

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

Ari Melber
Ari Melber

I started freelancing, writing op-eds and book reviews, one at a time. I then got the opportunity to write recurring freelance pieces for 'The Nation' magazine, focusing on how the Internet was changing politics.

Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker

I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.

Chris Crawford
Chris Crawford

Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.