I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

In short, software is eating the world

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.