Quotes About Independence

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.

I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me - I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

I started my own record label.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

I made this record without a record label.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

I'm not ruling out music forever. I'd love to do that, but if I ever did, I don't think it would be with a record label or anything like that. It might even look like me finding a band and kind of playing in bars.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

I know a lot of people who jumped into a record label right away, dropped an album, and then nothing happened for them. Build your fan base first, and follow your gut.

I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.