There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

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.