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I started my own record label.

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'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.

I made this record without a record label.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?