Mickie James Quotes

There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, 'indie' wasn't a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as 'indie bands,' and then it became a genre.

My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.

If you want to release your own single, there cannot be a better launch than going to Los Angeles and collaborating with a renowned artist.

I did my first album with my own record label.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label's artist. They said they really liked my album 'Everything You Wanted.'

I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.

I did a CD way back in 1989, but I never got it off the ground.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.