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

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

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.

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.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

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.