A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.
I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.
At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.
I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
I am responsible for no one but myself.
I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.
I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.
I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.
If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down.