The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.