Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.