Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

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

It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool.

Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.