"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."

"People just want to have access to all of the world's music."

"The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'"

"Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you."

"There's people making babies to my music. That's nice."

"Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&ampB pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three."

"I realize that every picture isn't a work of art."

"Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever."