Big businesses have always had a lot more voice. They can afford advertising; they can afford marketing. But for small businesses, being able to quickly and cheaply connect to customers is a big deal.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

'X Factor' was the best experience of my life to be part of a show watched by so many people.

We're very passionate about figure skating but it's a huge world out there and there's a lot of opportunity, and it'll be so much fun to see where we go.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.

She came from a land where revolutionary illusion had long since faded but where the thing he admired most in revolution remained: life on a large scale; a life of risk, daring, and the danger of death. Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavour. Superimposing the painful drama of her country on her person, he found her even more beautiful.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.