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Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

As an independent artist, you're always figuring out how you're going to fund your next album.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

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.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.