I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

The second record didn't sell as well and I think if we were on a big label, we might have been passed up on for the third, but they're a smaller label and the owner (Steve Gottlieb) likes us. So I think we deserve that chance with the first record doing so well.

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.