You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

- Alan Light

It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mea…

- Alan Light

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake …

- Alan Light

In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but …

- Alan Light

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and …

- Alan Light