I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!

If music's a political place, I'm out.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.