I still have a lot to learn - about the business about music and about myself. Its exciting.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

This film business perhaps more so in America than in Europe has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre but in America film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

Listen if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

When I started the business I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury Burger King Godfather's the National Restaurant Association in each one of those situations I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and more importantly solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high cultured conversations.

There is something sinister something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance melancholy. There's a sadness to it but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.