Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Semantics are just some antics used by the enemy to get us distracted and off course from the destiny and inheritance that God hand-picked and created specifically for us...

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.