They also wanted a television company, and they wanted to do movies. They were in publishing already. And I've always been intoxicated, if you will, with management. Here was another opportunity to do that. It was the perfect job choice.
Management is a lot of work for a very long shot.
So the reason I had never done it before was because I knew that it was a lot of work for a long shot. But there I was, working for Freddy DeMann who managed Michael Jackson and Madonna. It wasn't so bad. If I was going to learn management, I was going to learn it from one of the best. If I was going to learn how to deal with artists on a very different level than I ever had, I was going to learn it from the best.