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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.