randomWalks

'But they all ask me how much I'm prepared to compromise, and I say "Nothing." One company said, "Yes, we'll sign you, but we'd like you to make an album with Radiohead" - which doesn't mean anything to me. And several labels have said, "Yes, we'd like to sign you but we don't want to sign your musicians." There's always some absurd condition which makes absolutely no sense. And all the labels in America have said: "Will your music fit in with what is successful in the American charts?" To which I reply: "Bejaysus, I hope it doesn't!" And then I'm out on the street immediately. If you saw me at those meetings, you'd feel really pitifully sorry for me.'