Macy Gray: 'Music industry is biased'

Macy Gray has claimed that it is hard to succeed in the music industry as an older artist.

The singer said that record labels wrongly assume that only teenagers buy music and therefore fail to cater for an older audience.

She told The Independent: "There's this idea that only teenagers buy records and watch videos, so I think the industry is just becoming really accustomed to catering to a younger audience and therefore older artists have a really tough time."

Gray also compared herself to a door-to-door salesman after several producers refused to work on her latest LP The Sellout.

"I just went with the ones who called me back," she said. "It's nothing, it's alright.

"You know, rejections are really popular in the world and the secret is you just go to the next door - like those people who sell vacuums door-to-door. You've just got to keep going and eventually someone says 'yes'."

Discussing her last record Big, Gray admitted that her label affected her creative process.

She said: "You get in this rut of trying to please your label which definitely affects your creative process and the honesty of it."