It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound.

You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

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

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

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.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.