I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

You can only be a control freak when you have weak people around you.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade...

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your buisness.

Carry on carry on for the men and boys are gone But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.

Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.