Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.

The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.

California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream.