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

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. 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'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with.

I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.

My father is the oldest of seven boys.

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

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

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.

The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.

I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.

I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.

I've always been a lunatic.

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'm going to record forever.

I have social anxiety.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

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

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

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

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

I'm a fan of J. Cole.

There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music.

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

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

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

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'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.

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.

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

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.

I'm a producer at heart. I like being in the control room and directing people. That's what I do. But I've gotten on the mic a few times in my career; people seem to like it, so I'll do it again here and there. But that's really not my thing.

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

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

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.

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

Wreckin' Cru was a DJ crew. They used to call it that because it was the guys that came in after the party was over and broke down the equipment. We eventually made a record, and we had the costumes on and what have you. Back then, everybody had their little getups, you know, like SoulSonic Force, UTFO.

I was the biggest Public Enemy fan - I think it's what inspired the aggression of N.W.A. We just took a different route lyrically.

There's never been any bad vibes between me and Snoop.

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