When I was 25, I had risked everything to launch Justin Bieber and was a couple months away from losing everything.
When I look at acts, I look at the worldwide potential. And what travels wide is melody.
What you see is what you get with me.
What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.
What I do for a living is so high-risk that I try to make sure my portfolio is as conservative as possible.
There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.
The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.
The only real failure is giving up.
The moment our youth succeed, we try to figure out how to tear them down.
The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I'll tell all the details when I'm 50 or 60.
Sometimes the only way to realize what a foolish purchase is is to make one.
None of us are made to be worshipped, and when we take that in, we get sick.
My wife deals with real problems. My problems aren't problems - they're inconveniences.
My job is making irrational people do rational things.
My company motto is 'Inspire the world to try.'
If it's achievable, there's no excuse why you shouldn't be doing it.
A lot of times in this business, we forget that we're surrounded by a lot of really good people.
For me, the most fun times in this office are when we're listening to music. That's what you signed up for, not to just make deals.
I think people will always like intelligent TV.
I love collaborating with other really smart, incredible people.
I got offered a bunch of reality show stuff, but I didn't want to be known for that, so I turned it all down.
I think only Kanye can truly understand Kanye.
