"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."

"Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line."

"I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer."

"One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes."

"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song."

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."