Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun and I like doing stupid things. At the same time I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business and I have to make serious decisions.
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
The business side of film has goofed up so many things but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if as I always say you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
I suppose that by being absent from the music business it appeared that I just dropped out but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
To keep the record straight it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business I really don't let it affect the way I live.
I think a simple rule of business is if you do the things that are easier first then you can actually make a lot of progress.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Modern poets talk against business poor things but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason.
Look at growth look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Start with good people lay out the rules communicate with your employees motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively you can't miss.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird obscure things in the refrigerator.
As far as those kinds of things I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
For the youth the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.