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The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance.