I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.
I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.
Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.
I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
