Don't let anyone say you can't do it.

If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just don’t get that.

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

I'm inspired to inspire others.