In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
My biggest thing is that I never want to sell out. Or be a sellout.
The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.
There's always going to be people that say you're a sellout - anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That's OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.
I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!
When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
I don't want to be a sellout.
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.
