When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

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

I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life.

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.