I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer.
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.
Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
