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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.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.

I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.