Everyone brings a lunch. After a short business meeting, we have artists who are members who do a little show and tell, demonstrating their art.

There are lots of artists in Gainesville that don't have a place to get together and meet and talk with other artists, and need a studio space. Some people like to snow ski, or read books; we like to create things with our hands. We have a common thread of wanting to create.

It was started back in the spring, but we didn't really get going until the fall. Anyone can join, but you have to be a member of the Quinlan.

Most artists are making more money on tours than from CDs. That's why ticket prices and the cost of business went up. ... We don't voluntarily go out and write bigger checks.

In this business, TV is being taken up not by the true artists or the actors or the musicians any more, they are just being taken up by the common man, which gives everyone that feeling that there's a chance for me yet to be a star.

Consumers and artists dislike the major labels. It's a terrible business. Who wants to be at war with everybody?