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You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.