“In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.”

“I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.”

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

“A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.”

“It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.”

“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”

“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”

“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.”

“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.”