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I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.

I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

I make money, and I don't need money.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.