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" In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet. "

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" 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. "

" The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business. "

" A lot of times when I'm at home kickin' it, I don't even listen to hip hop. I listen to all types of music. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that? "

" I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting. "

" I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know? "

" I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives. "

" 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. "

" Wreckin' Cru was a DJ crew. They used to call it that because it was the guys that came in after the party was over and broke down the equipment. We eventually made a record, and we had the costumes on and what have you. Back then, everybody had their little getups, you know, like SoulSonic Force, UTFO. "

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

" When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut. "

" I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record. "

" I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know. "

" Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler. "

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

" I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something. "

" In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not. "

" My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time. "

" Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape. "

" There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music. "

" I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way. "

" I'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with. "

" I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut. "

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

" If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all. "

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