Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my office, I'm not going to say, 'You're not musicians.' We're going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.
Music industry's a fragmented mess.
I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.
When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.
I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'
There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.
I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.
I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.
If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.
Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
If you are not frightened, you are not original.
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.
When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.
