Everybody wants power and control in their life.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

Always say less than necessary.

I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

Actually learning ancient Greek was a brilliant practice of mine because you'd sit there and you'd read a sentence and sometimes it would take you a day, an entire day to figure out one sentence. But it really trains you to be analytical, to think in a certain way to try and interpret what something means. So I've been thinking like that my whole life and then I love Machiavelli and I love thinking about politics that way. So it's sort of all that put together and then the good luck to meet a man who is sort of interested in the same thing.