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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. "

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" 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. "

" When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.' "

" When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for nobody but Future. "

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

" Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!' "

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

" 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 my dad retired, he moved to Georgia, but I stayed in California. I was in San Francisco: that's where I first went from being a musician to making beats and producing. I was 18, 19. It started going pretty good for me out there in California, so I stayed in SF while my parents moved to Georgia. "

" I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much. "

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

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

" I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot. "

" 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. "

" I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager. "

" I play the piano, but I'm not classically trained. "

" Future's the guy, like, where, if I send him some beats while he on the road, and there's a pack of beats that he really like, if there's a new vibe or new wave, he's like, 'Man, keep feeding me more. Feed me more of this every day.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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 feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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