Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.
If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.
Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.
Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.
I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.
When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.
You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.
I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.
The music business is strictly business.
I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.
If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.
