“We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.”

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

I’m never absolutely sure of anything, and I don’t want to be. You’re either right and you’ll pull through, or you’re not. We’re never going to be right about everything, and we’ve certainly been wrong.

The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.

My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.

Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

To be good, you need to believe in what you’re doing.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I’m drawn to digital because it’s so easy to acquire them when I’m having a need-to-read moment.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, ‘I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.’ I’m not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

You know I don’t think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.