The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.
Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.
Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.
I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
