It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.