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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.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

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

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

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.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.