I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.

When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.

It was frustrating that young people, through no fault of their own, were listening to terrible $2 ear buds. You can't get good sound out of those.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and that makes it suck.

When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.

Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'

You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.

You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.

I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.

The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.

The sound of my voice is more famous than me.

My relationships are helped because of all the success I've had, but I'm only as useful as the idea I have today or tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm just a trophy.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

Apple is a company that understands music.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.

I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.

Genres are just names.

Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.

If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

I feel open to anything.

The next Prince might just get really good at something else.

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.

I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.