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.

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.

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

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

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

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.