My favourite authors are Jeffrey Archer, for his story telling skills; John Grisham, for the completely new genre he created; and James Patterson, for the way he created a new business model out of writing.
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.
It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.
In this business, it's important: if you consider yourself a journeyman actor like I do, you need to stay topical. So I'm always looking for projects that are challenging, that put me in a light that's different from anything I've ever done before.
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.
I think I'm going to be a juggler when I retire from the promotion business one day.
My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.
When I first started in the business, I spent so much! Staying in a Trump Hotel for two years, spending eight Gs a month just living.
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn't, KC Trends would be out of business.
The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.
I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
This Islam business kidnapped me.
