I'd been knocking on record companies' doors for so long, and I had gone on a lot of auditions. It's weird when you go to those auditions through the Village Voice or something. You never know what to expect. You just press Floor 3 on the elevator and pray that it's not. . . You know, anyone can place an ad, so it's really freaky.
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.