You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.