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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

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.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.