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It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

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.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.