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.

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.

The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

It is very possible to acknowledge another person’s concerns without entering into their vibration.

Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

War justifies everything.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

I will be rich or I will die trying.