The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.