When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.
Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.
I will paint for money any time.
