Withered Hand Quotes

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

I don't get a big recording budget or much promotion, but I have creative freedom.

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

There are no rules when I'm making stuff. That's why I'm glad I'm not signed. No one's telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Peas, it's Zumbao. Zumbao is different from the Peas because it's all on me and I can't feed off of anybody other than me.

It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.

I can make any film I want to make.

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.