The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".