I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.

You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University.

People flourish if they’re praised.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.