I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

... A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content ... What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet — and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock — open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it — puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it...

...The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

And another thing...