When a fan buys a ticket, we learn an enormous amount about them: What bands they like, where they live, how much they are willing to spend. Someday, a fan will be sitting in a bar and his cellphone will text message 'Sonic Youth are playing tonight. Do you want to go?' He'll buy his ticket over the phone and walk to the concert.

Part of calling ourselves Live Nation was about starting to shift the way we think, to be first and foremost fan-focused.

The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.

Calling the new company Live Nation Entertainment is a big statement. Let's make sure we send a strong message from the first investor call.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.