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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.