I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.