Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

Coming up with the bucket list is the easy part, but ticking off the list is the challenge. I love a good challenge, which is why I strongly advise everyone to come up with a bucket list. It doesn't have to contain out of this world tasks. But once you have written down the list, screw it, just do it!

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.