The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.