What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.