The true face of smoking is disease death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Effectively change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration cooperation and consensus.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry meat-eating growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.

The image is where you have dinner at night who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry I give you 90 percent of what most people need.