You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

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.

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

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.

The library was the best place in the world.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.