Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

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.

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.

When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

If it isn't broken don't try to fix it

My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

When you're hot, it's fair, when you're not, it's foul.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.