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" I'm not a big spender. I don't get into all the jewelry and all that. "

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" I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it. "

" I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers. "

" The difference between the headphones and making music, it's like, okay, I have a new business here that I'm proud of, but my soul still remains in the music-making process. "

" I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life. "

" Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win. "

" Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut. "

" There's never been any bad vibes between me and Snoop. "

" I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way. "

" Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is. "

" I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less. "

" Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes. "

" It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just - it's a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it's right. "

" I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. "

" Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.' "

" Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I've worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There's no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that. "

" I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental. "

" I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet. "

" I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song. "

" I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail. "

" I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it. "

" You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen. "

" You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally. "

" When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time. "

" I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that. "

" The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song. "

" I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.' "

" I like working with new artists. "

" People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself. "