My maxim was, the career is open to talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.

A career is born in public-talent in privacy.

My first job with Walmart was unloading trucks in a warehouse. Then I worked as an assistant manager in a store, and I was lucky enough to get into our buyer-training program. I loved merchandising and had a career path that led me through Sam's Club and Walmart International.

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.