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What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.