Mustard Quotes

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

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'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

Nobody owns me or my music.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Artists can do whatever they want!

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.

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

Being signed to a major label was never an option because I knew having the time to find out who you are without pressure from other people is so important.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am my own master. I know my worth.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

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

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

I am the freest author in the world.