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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.

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.