Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
Prayer for today: Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.
The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
I worry that independence will never feel safe again.
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Let your projects be independent organisms. They will develop their own beautiful architecture.
Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.
Time is real and independent of space. Space is a manufactured quantity and a form of time. Time is not a manufactured quantity in any sense.
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.
I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.
As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.
