I made this record without a record label.
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
I just have so much love for my record label.
I started my own record label.
I don't get involved in record label politics.
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
Originally, after 'Tambourine' came out, another record was supposed to come out, but I had issues with my record label at the time, which was Interscope. We couldn't agree on a record, so that took some time. I had to leave them and find a new label...
My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.
I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and r...
We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
