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The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.