If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

Your past always leads to who you are.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science his whole life. Both my paternal grandparents were illiterate bamboo farmers, so he really worked his way up and then got a Ph.D., full ride and everything, from universities in America.

Spending time with my family is very high-rated. It's what I really like to do on my holidays.

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.