A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.

Just because you get a record deal doesn't mean you're even going to put out a record,

Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal?

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.