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So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.

Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising - and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn't a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.