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I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did 'Mars et Avril' for only 2.3 million.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

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.