Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor.

I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.