If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.

There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate.

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

Service is the key to everything in life.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.