When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.
One Missed Call,' it was regarded as a mainstream film for my career because it was big budget and filmed in Japan and it really opened wide in Japan, it did really well commercially. So I was really surprised.
Xscape never had a flop album as a group. The reason we broke up never had anything to do with sales.
When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either.
The rule was, the kids in this agency had to do 15 commercials or something before they sent them out on a theatrical audition, for a television show. And I had only done two commercials.
I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.
'Heart on Fire' didn't do as well as the last record in most territories, but South Africa is one of the places it did really well.
If we look at 'Borderlands,' I can't honestly say that there is anything about how well the game sold that I'm disappointed about.
Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.
I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good.
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
I've never been driven by box office.
