Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.

Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of us aren't too conscious of what we are trying to do and get that control and that power so people end up sort of playing all kinds of unconscious manipulative games or they're sort of half aware, they have an idea of a strategy or goal they want to use and they think about it. But then in the heat of the moment, it kind of all flies out the window.

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

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

If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.