Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?

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.

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.