Theoretically, the distribution fee should include an element of payment for advice, after the banks complained that the public wouldn't pay for advice. But being an adviser means more than selling: one has to examine the portfolio, update it and sometimes recommend that the client sell.

We're open to other people's advice. But I never want to be in a situation where someone else is telling us what to play -- unless it's someone we trust. But you know, we're not anti-label, we're not pro. We don't prefer majors to indies. Someone will eventually take us home or, if not, we'll do it ourselves.

We don't like to say the advertisers are wrong. But we think they're getting a lot of wrong advice.

The actor's comments could conceivably end up getting someone killed. Mr. Cruise's advice was not only dangerous, but also absurd and wrong. It is our hope and prayer that anyone who has been talked out of acquiring life-saving health care by Mr. Cruise reevaluate Mr. Cruise's ill-informed advice and go back to treatment. Life and health are too precious to risk by taking the medical advice of a uneducated movie actor.

He has been taking it on the advice of a dermatologist. And he has had very good success and he feels it has helped hair growth and prevented further loss, and he has taken it with my knowledge.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.