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Spirit is a band I really love.

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.