Quotes About Income

My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.

When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that.

The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

I'm always looking for additional revenue streams.

The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.

If companies are able to have multiple revenue streams and have their hands in multiple pools of money, then why shouldn't the people who actually work for those brands be able to do the exact same thing?

If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How's an artist going to live like that?

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

I have a 200-song catalogue in the streets and I never got any money off that.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

Strictly' is Saturday night fun. The pay's not amazing.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking is that Social Security is the only source of retirement income for almost a quarter of elderly beneficiaries.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income families from getting ahead. Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.

I've pretty much always lived paycheck to paycheck. I never considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.

We're baseball players, right? We make great money. Regardless if we don't make the money we want, we're still making great money. A lot of people in this world are struggling a lot harder than us.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.