When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

What I write, only I can write, because of my singular sensibility, so I made a deal with the creative process: I would try to live in a heightened state of awareness, and I would let the songs come, not force them to please someone other than myself.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.