Bobby Brown 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.

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

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

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.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

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

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. That's just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

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 was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

What America was built on was being able to say, 'Hey, we're going to come in and use our resources to build for ourselves and our communities and build around that. We're not going to depend on others.'

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.

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 don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

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.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.