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I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I've been labeled all my life.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

I try to do things the right way.

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.