Look at the prohibitive taxes for those who are really successful. The tax raids, the complicated laws and bylaws, the hassles - they all make popularity a punishable offence.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.