I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

I get to meet really interesting people.

We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

I don't think we see ourselves as the savior of the music industry.

A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language.

It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.

For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist.

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.

I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet.