Quote

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

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.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

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

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?