Aubrie Sellers Quotes

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

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 potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

So, as I step out and take these first steps on this journey to do my own thing, I didn't want to have to get anybody's approval on anything. I didn't want to have to ask a record label 'Is this okay for the album cover? What time do you think I should go on tour this year?'

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.

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.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

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

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie.

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

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

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

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

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.