Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.
In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.
Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.
I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.
I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.
Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.
