I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.