I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.