Quotes About Independence

I'd been doing my own thing, and making my own money; I wasn't built by a record label or the music industry, nor was I built by prominent artists that have given me co-signs.

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

I'm running my own business, my own record label, so I'm always dealing with heavy amounts of stress.

I run a whole record label, I'm a whole entrepreneur.

I've dealt with a record label in the past.

I wanted to raise my kids to be strong, independent and follow their dreams and be themselves and make choices based on what they want not what the press, management or a record label or I don't care who it is... you stick to what you want and you be who you are and be proud of it.

Unless you've given up your business to a record label, there's no such thing as just being a musician anymore.

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.

I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally.

I don't really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

I don't get a big recording budget or much promotion, but I have creative freedom.

I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.