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Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.