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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

I was told when I was little I couldn't have an opinion because you want everyone to buy your record and like you.

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

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

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

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.