You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.
I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are 'fresh meat,' and people will meet you and give you a chance.
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.
I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.
I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.
I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
