Passenger Quotes

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

I ain't on no major. Everything independent. Either way it goes, I am doing me, and I am doing Freddie Gibbs.

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

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.

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.

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

You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

I'm for economic independence.

I made this record without a record label.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.