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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'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.
I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.
I can tell you every element of every single look from each collection - one to 30 - without looking at a picture: my label is all done by me.
What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.
I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.
I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.
That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.
I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.
That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear - because I didn't want anyone to change it.
Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.
I've experienced a lot of creative freedom because I'm on a family label. It was nice to put out what I wanted to say and do what I wanted to do.
Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
Advocates of GMO labeling aren't seeking a warning label. We're simply asking for a factual, non-judgmental disclosure on the back of the package.
I don't like labels. For me, saying I'm transgender was just a thing to say because it's what people want to label me as - a female, who's a male.
In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.
I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.
You shouldn't feel you have to label yourself for someone else to understand you. You should be able to feel what you want to feel and that's okay.
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.
I think if you look back at some of the stuff that we broadly label as the crime 'ouvre,' there are certainly elements of the supernatural at work.
We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.
When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn't marketable having a weight image.
I think that 'minimalist' is a useful label for other people to identify me, but from my standpoint, I doesn't necessarily have an identity as that.
Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.
I realized how important it was to have a good team - manager, attorney and label. It's not just about putting out a record and somebody signing you.
My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!
In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.
If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.
Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
Warner Bros. was a great label to be affiliated with. It's the best label out there, and the fact that I was with them for 20 years was just an honor.
I think the labels 'Plus Size' and 'Curvy' should be banned. You don't say 'White model' or Skinny model.' Why should 'Plus Size' models have a label.
With a Grammy, if you're releasing your record with a major label, you have a chance with any record. You also have a very long shot with every record.
Keep your eyes peeled: Honor's the label to watch. It's quickly becoming a serious celebrity favorite - just ask fans Kirsten Dunst and Kelly Osbourne.
My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.
How do I feel about being called a national treasure? I think it's marvellous if that's people's opinion. But I'd rather have the money than the label.
Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.
I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.
I would love for people to know that the label 'feminist' is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.