Share your personality with interviewers, but keep a professional filter safely adhered to it.

Self-awareness is a trait - or maybe 'practice' is the more accurate way to put it - that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you.

When you look at the reasons people leave companies, it's usually because their boss is a jerk or because they aren't learning and growing.

From the beginning, we believed that it was possible to develop direct relationships with customers at a relatively cheap cost, and our plan was to build a lifestyle brand that was also an Internet company - a rarity for eyewear.

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.