Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.