Quotes About Independence

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I want to be role model for people to be like, 'I don't need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.'

That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.

If you're on an indie label, you're not getting enough money. And if you're on a major, you're not getting enough support.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.

Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.'

My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to create the type of music I want. I was basically ignoring a lot of labels.

I got fed up with the idea of partnering with labels on a major scale because of how they have to deliver things. They get gun-shy.

I don't want to be on any major labels.

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

With no finish line, no referees, no one right way to do it, hiking is perhaps the quintessential sport for anarchists.

I haven't had a boyfriend for, like, a hundred years, and I'm at that point where I could really use a guy on a Saturday for about six hours. You know what I mean? Because everything in my apartment is broken.

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension; and I miss all those moments that pass. They never come back to be experienced again. —Kathleen Tierney Crilly

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. —Anne Frank