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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS. "

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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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" Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good. "

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

" I am never going to give music up. "

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" It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea. "

" 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. "

" Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown. "

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" I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes. "

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

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

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

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

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" I have social anxiety. "

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

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

" I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble. "

" 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? "

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

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

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" 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. "