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

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.

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.

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.

He’s suffering from Politician’s Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

I think I'm commercial underground. I'm not commercial in the way that people consider 'pop, ' but I'm not underground in the way that people consider that. either. I am just a cool guy.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.