"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense."

"If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself."

"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the canvas of tomorrow is painted with the actions of today."

"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."

"I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs."

"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."