Isaac Hanson Quotes

I rarely have any contact with the artists who cover my songs.

We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

After a song comes out, it doesn't remain yours.

My strongest message is: 'Never give your songs away. Never sign a contract you can't get out of.'

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.

The big thing is I'm not with a major label. I've been independent since the get-go, and I've been very lucky to get some good advice on keeping hold of copyright and that kind of stuff.

I don't want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone's album.

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

When you get a song placed with two of the top stars in the world, like Rihanna and Eminem, especially as a new writer, they're gonna take a huge chunk of your publishing. That's just the way the business is. I'm not complaining.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.