Soccer Mommy Quotes

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.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

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

There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

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.

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.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

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

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.

Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.

You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.

I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.

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

Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.

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.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

I realized how important it was to have a good team - manager, attorney and label. It's not just about putting out a record and somebody signing you.

I had a publishing deal way before I had a record deal.

Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever would record the song. It's tough to do because there are so many great songwriters in Nashville, and I was lucky enough to get some songs recorded before I got my record deal.

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

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.