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The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.