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

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.

Wherever you are — it’s too early to draw a conclusion. You may be down, but you’re not done. Today’s defeat could be tomorrow’s gold.

None of us are ordinary

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Power and beauty come from a very deep place.

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."