Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy and it's serious. It's serious business.

Well I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions or bad decisions and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

Most executives many scientists and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

You know maybe I was just born in the wrong time but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year but I used the wrong paper. See the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic ' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor ' it's crucial to say that.