Holly Johnson Quotes

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.

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

You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.

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.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

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.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

I'm literally am home making my own music unless I'm asked to be in somebody's house writing music for them.

Nobody really produces my albums.

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

When I made 'Lil Boat,' my first mixtape, I didn't have a drop date, a due date. I didn't have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own smoothness, at my own pace.

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

I drop free music because I want people to know I'm still working. I want people to know I'm working and making my money independently. I don't want to charge for a mixtape; I'd rather charge for an album and really give something to my fans.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

I started a group called Loudpvck, which I do by myself now, and toured the whole world.

I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.

Then when I was writing alone, I'd just be in my bedroom in London and I had a little studio setup. I was like, You know what, if no one's gonna produce my music, I'm gonna have to learn how to do it myself.

If you're a super-producer, you can produce whatever you want to produce. That's where I'm at.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.