The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.