There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.
I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.
Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.
