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.

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.

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

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

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

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

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

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.'