A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.

The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business that was failing so badly, you would change course. And it's just incredible that governments continue along the same course.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.

Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.

[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.

Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're - if you're good with people and you've got - you know, and you really care, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin. I think, you know, that, you know, that the companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.