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Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

A band can define their own success.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there.