When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.