How do we let people pay for music?

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.

Success is the greatest teacher for future success.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?