At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

The pulse of lapping water

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

It wasn't a mistake to come out of college early. It was the best move I ever made. I had one year to practice and learn the NBA game. It was like a redshirt year.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.