Kip Winger Quotes

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

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

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it takes them five years to sit down and make the album they want to make, they should be able to afford that. That's my goal.

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.

I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.

Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

Some of the earlier stuff I did in studio with producers was very pop-directed, which I was uncomfortable with.

When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single.

It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.

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

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.

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