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

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.

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

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.

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.