There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.
I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.
Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second...
TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.
Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore.
These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type...
