I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, "Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or MTV." I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.