So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.
I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.
More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.
Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.
When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things
Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.
I'm labeled a comedic actor, which is awesome. But I love getting the occasional dramatic role, too. Some of your best dramatic actors are ultimately comedians.
Georgians aren't interested in labels or affiliation, they're interested in solutions. And that begins by making Washington smaller and America bigger!
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.
