The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

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.

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

I've never been much of a joiner.

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

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.