I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.
I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.
I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!