I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all - how fast it is, how many songs it can hold, and all that - he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.

When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.

I want to feel that I own things.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.