I suppose that by being absent from the music business it appeared that I just dropped out but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had but how boring is that?

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes according to Ralph Nader who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face be the phony baloney and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider I don't know. But that's fine.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I never ask a man what his business is for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.