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.

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?

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.