I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

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.

The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

If you would find gold, you must search where gold is.