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.

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.