In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

I've never been much of a joiner.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.