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Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

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.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.