I'm a musical genius.

My first love is producing.

I don't have beef with nobody.

Don't get in my personal life.

I try to be as normal as I can.

I know somebody in every culture.

It hurts when people put you down.

I work out all the time. I love it.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.

It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.

I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

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