You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

I'm lookin' forward to doin' a lot of big things. I've been doin' a lot of big things: a lot of traveling, a lot of recording - I'm excited.

I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.

Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.