Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

I had been rejected, but I was still in love.

If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.