But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.

There are parts [in Dodd-Frank] that I don't agree with. But, in total, it is what it is.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

My commitment to stand behind Datsun gained the trust of dealers and sold cars. My motto was: Dealers make money first, and then we make money.