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" We did 'Bricks' and 'Ridiculous' all in one day. Gucci came here, like, 8 in the morning - we were done 4 the morning the next day. "

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" When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing. "

" Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that. "

" I like V-Nasty a lot, and I know anytime I like an artist and the majority of people really don't like her, I know it's something special. That's the same way I felt about Gucci. "

" Gucci is a guy that promoted me to the fullest. It don't matter where we go. "

" When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together. "

" It always surprises me and always makes me proud when I see people that I know I worked with at the house in the basement on TV being superstars. "

" People looked at me - people still look at me - as 'this is Gucci Mane's producer.' But the music that me and Future put together was so different than what me and Gucci do, it just made people look at the music like, 'Hold on - Zaytoven is the real deal.' "

" You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting. "

" Trap music, to me, is hustling music. "

" When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art. "

" There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on. "

" When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together. "

" When me and Gucci sit down, I make tracks real fast, and he can write songs real fast. "

" When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats. "

" The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it. "

" Most artists value my opinion a lot, and I think that's due to 'Beast Mode.' "

" If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care. "

" If I'm spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I'm not feeling it. "

" You can always know, when it comes to a Gucci Mane or Migos project, there is no such thing of them putting out a project without me being a part of it. These are guys that I'm really close with, and we built a sound together, and we got a certain chemistry. "

" When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all done worked together. So it ain't like me and him sitting in the studio. "

" I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while. "

" I can show these folks I can do more than just the 'trap.' But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for - that's what they want to hear. "

" I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay. "

" I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special. "

" 'So Icy' is always going to be one of my favorites because this is a song that blew my mind. I was just making beats for the fun of it. I went to the club and heard the song being played, so I asked the DJ to stop playing the song, and the whole club started rapping word for word. "

" I tell people that it's one thing to have the gift and the talent and work hard but another thing to have the favor of God in making it all work, and I think all those are factors. "

" When people wanna come buy beats or wanna record a song, I'm trappin'. "

" To me, my studio is my trap house. That's where I trap out of; that's where I hustle. That's where I make my money. "

" I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is. "

" For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career. "