I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.