The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

I am looking forward to work on digital platforms more often than not.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.