I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.

It comes down to that ... business tactic: the guy that yells loudest is right.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

I don't want to not be important.

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.

It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn’t change back. One second.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.