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"I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently."
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"I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing."

"I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce."

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"They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist."

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"I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again."

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"We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us."
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