Lindsey Buckingham – HuffPost 8.24.11

Mike Ragogna: With the bigger labels, it’s alleged good business sense to just sign new artists because you get them on the cheap, they don’t have contracts for years with their royalty rates that have gone up, etc. While we’re on that subject, what advice do you have for new artists these days?

Lindsey Buckingham: Oh boy, if I only knew. I don’t have any particular insight into any marketing advice or strategies at all, other than in the same way there were a ton of independent labels in the ’50s and early ’60s, which all went away at some point, now you’ve got the Internet, so that does level the playing field a little bit, and it gives people the opportunity to be heard on their own terms. Because of that I would say, as a new artist, I guess it’s one thing to have a clever marketing idea, but I think it’s most important to find something you can call your own.