If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.
With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.
I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.
Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.