This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.
I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television...
There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.
