Label Independence Quotes

I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.

For us, being a label, we took out the whole aspect of the business that goes into sifting through people who don't care, who don't get what you're trying to do. We can just hire and work with people who get it - the people who understand what this project is about. When you're on a label, you're just hoping somebody will stick their neck out and work for you. Most bands are just like, "I hope they do it. I hope they promote it." But being a label, we know exactly what's happening.

The big thing is I'm not with a major label. I've been independent since the get-go, and I've been very lucky to get some good advice on keeping hold of copyright and that kind of stuff.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.

Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.