I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

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

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.