If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Anything is better than stagnation.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.

Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.