I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

I have made more money than I ever thought anybody should ever make. But who cares if you're worth $500 million or $1 billion? That is not what I want to be remembered for, but for giving something back.

Sometimes our definitions fall short. Take, for example, the way we view income and labor. It simply doesn't cover enough of the work that women, and in particular poor women, are doing - especially in their own households and the vast 'informal' economy in which most of the world's poorest people work.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.