Independent Recording Quotes

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how he should sing the songs. When you listen to his records, you feel like you're tapping into his voice.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.

I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.