“The culture there had been institutionalized. You had record executives there who've been sitting in their office because of one act–'But that's the guy who signed Mötley Crüe!' Seriously? That was twenty five years ago...There was nothing fresh, there was no excitement, it was just doing the same shit over again. I said 'Where's the passion? Where's the ideas? Where's the new shit?' I'm used to being around entrepreneurs and we were passionate about everything. But whether this artist comes out and [sells] four hundred million or forty thousand albums the first week [the average employee's] check is the same. So you're doing everything routine, routine, routine, and you lose the passion for it. You stop coming up with new ideas, and you start erasing the name off the marketing plan and filling it with another name and it's the same shot.”