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

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" 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. "

" I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album. "

" Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started. "

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

" I'm a producer at heart. I like being in the control room and directing people. That's what I do. But I've gotten on the mic a few times in my career; people seem to like it, so I'll do it again here and there. But that's really not my thing. "

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

" I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E. "

" I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss. "

" 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? "

" An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. "

" I have social anxiety. "

" Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented. "

" I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then. "

" 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. "

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

" No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next. "

" Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down. "

" 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. "

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

" It's always been difficult to make a good record. "

" I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet. "

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

" I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's incredible what I've done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can't help but go, 'Damn, there's things I could've done better, you know?' "

" 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 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 always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. "

" I'm a fan of J. Cole. "