The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.