Matthew Sweet Label Quotations

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

I got better money playing live and some publishing money - I still get checks from publishing. But the label was always recouping advances.