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I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

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.'