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Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.

I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

I'm against spending money to record.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.