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

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

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

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

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

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.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.