I had spent years in the United States military. Specifically in the U.S. Navy.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.

We do a big business with our midsized-venue model. We don't need bands to be on the top-ten charts to make money.

There is no assurity that something will be a success because it is a remake or because it does/does not have a superstar.