Wealth & Money Quote by Robby Krieger

The bluntest flex is the one that pretends not to be a flex. Krieger’s quote reads like casual accounting, but it’s really a musician’s version of myth-management: yes, there was chaos, yes, there were casualties, and yes, the machine kept printing money and momentum anyway.

Notice the language. “Some mistakes” and “stuff like that” are classic minimizers, the verbal equivalent of sweeping broken glass offstage before the next song. He doesn’t dramatize the turmoil; he compresses it into a few shruggy syllables. That’s not evasiveness so much as veteran pragmatism: in rock history, managerial warfare is so common it barely qualifies as plot. By making the conflict sound routine, Krieger quietly normalizes the compromises that come with being in a legendary band - the contracts, the gatekeepers, the people you “get rid of” when their influence becomes too expensive or too controlling.

The subtext is about agency. “We had some managers we didn’t like” frames the band as the decision-maker, not the product. It’s an assertion of power in an industry built on intermediaries. The phrase “that cost some money” is almost comic in its understatement, hinting at lawsuits, buyouts, and the price of autonomy without giving the gossip-hungry reader a headline.

Then the pivot: “But overall, we did really well.” It’s a tidy moral that resists tragedy. Coming from a Door, it lands as a surprising kind of optimism: the mess is acknowledged, depersonalized, and absorbed into the success story. The legend survives, and the ledger balances.