Today it's not culture; it's box office.
Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Only sick music makes money today.
What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.
