I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.
At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.
I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.
Drink wine, not labels.
I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.
I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.
A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,'. . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.
I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.
People are too complicated to have simple labels.
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.
I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.
Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.
I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.
All labels are offensive in some way.
I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.