Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.
No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
I'm against spending money to record.