Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.

Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my office, I'm not going to say, 'You're not musicians.' We're going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.

I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'

You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.

I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.

What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.

I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.

Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.

Talent is talent.

My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.

The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.

A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.

Curation is everything.

I never say someone is powerful.

Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.

A chart that weighs some ad-supported streams the same as a pay stream... encourages artists to promote free tiers to have a No. 1 record. That's great for the tech companies, but not for artists.

I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.

Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.

I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.

If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

I like 'The Voice.'

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

I couldn't do a show; I have about as much talent to do television as, you know... it's not what I do. I wouldn't know where to begin.

Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.