If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.
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MTV is known for their huge budget.
I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.
You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.
MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us.
If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.
I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.
I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.
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