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Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.