The Bongos’ Richard Barone – HuffPost 12.27.13

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Richard Barone: This never changes… Be true to yourself. Record labels, websites, magazines, trends — they all come and go. The only constant is you. Your creativity. We will always need artists — real artists. They are the content providers that every music app and website needs, exists, and lives for. If you try to change to fit in you’ll find that by the time your change is ready, the trend has already shifted. The way to succeed is to be 100% yourself, 100% of the time. You can’t go wrong if you do that.