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" You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally. "

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" I'm going to record forever. "

" No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record. "

" I've sold a lot of records. Did I keep other artists from eating? "

" Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is. "

" 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. "

" There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to. "

" 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?' "

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

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

" Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape. "

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

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

" I like working with new artists. "

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

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

" I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting. "

" I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know. "

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

" I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper. "

" Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth. "

" The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it. "

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

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

" I'm so secluded, and I'm so private. "

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

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

" My father is the oldest of seven boys. "

" 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. "

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