The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!'

Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike.

I don't want to worry about someone calling me and going, 'You better find a way to get another Taylor Swift record out this quarter.' When there's that kind of financial pressure dictating your path, it's hard to take creative risks.

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.

I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.

As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'