I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't even want to have around.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I'm wearing. That's more important to me than a name, brand, or label.

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to women.

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.

Dream projects are always a funny thing to label. I guess just more exciting scripts in my inbox. Maybe an exciting script about John Lennon.

I was always doing an independent kind of move while I was still with a label. They just stamped it.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

I was in a situation where I was a West Coast artist signed to an East Coast label.

With me, I'm going to have a label where no one is ever cheated, ever.

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I'm always connecting with what society would label the outcasts and the weirdos and the lost souls.

There's some dudes that did Gangsta Grillz tapes who probably weren't worthy of it - their label just put up the bread, or they did a favor.

It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.

I figured it out at a young age: I could meet as many young people online and try to form my own family or my own record label group.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

I'm not with a label, so I haven't ever felt pressure to be a certain way. I've got a cool team who just love music.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.

'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label.

It's important for women to have each other's backs. I'd like my label to give women the resources they need to flourish.

Just because I run an indie label doesn't mean I don't think Jay-Z is nice.

For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.

Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

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