It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
The Internet is the wrong direction for music.
You don't work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day.
People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.
I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.
I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.
I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.
For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.
I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.
There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.
If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.
If it wasn't for the Internet, I wouldn't be here. I'd probably be rapping, but I wouldn't be well known if it wasn't for the Internet.
A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.
I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.
It's really weird being placed into something like that because it was never an intention to make bedroom pop. I was just making music. All the people that have that genre placed on them are not the first people to have a home studio and and post it on the Internet.
