I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

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.

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

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

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.

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

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.