In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.