More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.
I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.
It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
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.
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.
I just have so much love for my record label.
I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.
I started my own record label.
I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.