All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

We needed to do a better job physically in the paint and not just from a couple guys, the whole group. R.J. can sure shoot it, he gave us some big baskets, and Mario worked very hard. We just needed one more guy to step up.