"Nobody is saying, 'I'm so poor, please help me.' . . . I have a swimming pool. I have nice shoes." -Singer Courtney Love in an address to a panel of California state legislators about the injustice of contracts that bind musicians to record labels for more than seven years
See "Pop Artists Rap Record Deals, Lobby Lawmakers for Relief", JENIFER WARREN, Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2001