Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

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.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.