The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.
I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.
I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.
In country radio, everybody has such a connection and a bond. So you've got to meet them.
I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.
The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other.
My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.
I've done some stuff with Glenn Danzig before, and while I can't really say that we're friends, we're friendly acquaintances.
And I got a lot of friends in Hollywood.
I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.
There are a lot of Swedes in Hollywood in general. We have a tendency to know each other and help each other out.
Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
Somebody with no connection to the film industry may succeed, and somebody with all connections to the industry may not.
I knew Chester. I've known Chester since 2001. I was in a band called Dry Cell, and we were signed by the same guy that signed Linkin Park, so that's how I knew him. He would come to some of our writing sessions and rehearsals; I'd see him in the studios that we were at.
You see, in the fashion industry, everybody either knows each other or is linked to one another. If you're not part of their inner circle, things can be hard.
I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
I am a director's baby.
