Arlo Guthrie on running his own label, 2003

"I remember years ago when I was working with Warners, our agreement was that I could buy my stuff at cost and sell it on the road, those kind of places. Well, their cost was twice as much as what I actually had to pay to manufacture it myself. I said, ‘Well, how is that?’ And they said, ‘Well, we have big buildings filled with secretaries and limousines and lunches and stuff like that.’ Well I didn't have any of that, so the cost of me doing it--it didn't make sense to go with a large label, especially nowadays with the Internet and people can buy and trade and listen to stuff whenever they want worldwide."

From the book The Complete Singer-Songwriter: A Troubadour's Guide to Writing, Performing, Recording, and Business