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" Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity. "

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" At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. "

" It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on. "

" 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. "

" I've never been much of a joiner. "

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

" It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it. "

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

" One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place. "

" Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles. "

" I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet. "

" There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. "

" Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood. "

" You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it. "

" It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. "

" Little startups are ridiculously overfunded. "

" The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups. "

" I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch. "

" There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes. "

" In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results. "

" What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. "

" My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' "

" I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting. "

" There is no simple answer to what I think. "

" 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. "

" You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it. "

" I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality. "

" I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. "