Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

There's something much more fundamental about Mitt Romney. He seems so old-fashioned when it comes to women, and I think that comes across, and I think that that's going to hurt him over the long term. He just doesn't really see us as equal.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.