Label Constraints Quotes

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.

The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do.

It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.'

If I had a label, everything would have been easier. But it wouldn't have been the same album, from the cover art to the songs on it.

You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you to do what you want to do.