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In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.