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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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 like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community. "

" Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic. "

" 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. "

" Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well. "

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

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

" I think that the sound that the world knows as trap music is the sound that Gucci and I created. "

" When I was cutting hair, I felt like that was my trap. I started selling haircuts. I started selling beats; that's me trapping. So trap music is like hustling music to me. "

" I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005. "

" 'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it's a part of what I do. I make movies now. "

" The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me. "

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

" When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from. "

" I'm always up for the challenge of doing more and doing different things. I love being inspired like a new producer all over again. "

" 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'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit. "

" I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. "

" I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out. "

" I approached my career like a rapper. I would go to every open mic, every studio session, bringing my beats. I would almost do exactly what a rapper would do to get on. "

" 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. "

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

" I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has. "

" 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. "

" Atlanta can do crunk music, it can do snap music, it can do swag music. Atlanta has it all. "

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

" My formula is not thinking about what I'm doing; it's about still having fun and making music. I don't go into the studio with a thought pattern or certain goals in mind - sometimes I'll start with drums, other times I'll start with the piano - but it's all done spontaneously, so nothing is premeditated, and nothing takes a long time. "