Artist Priorities Quotes

I'd rather make music than tour.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

It seems as though if you go on tour with someone that means you're automatically going out with them. I'm just focusing on my music.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

Every artist has different priorities. Some artists I know don't make as much music as they used to, because social media has taken over their lives. I work at what I feel is a very normal pace, and things keep clicking. It's rewarding.

We don't try to please everyone. Those older fans who expect something from The Roots are a tad more important to me than getting new fans.

As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.

I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

Obviously there was the idea that we could sell more records if we played live, but I guess I didn't care enough to sell more records to do that.

We've never been very good at servicing fans. I'm here to concentrate on music, not to be a pen pal to people who write to me.