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I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

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

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

I started my own record label.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.