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.

My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.

I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

Growing up, my dad was 'get a real job, don't go pursuing your dreams, that's how you become homeless.' So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?

I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and then, much to their dismay, I became a stand-up comedian.

I don't know why people feel the need to do this to me, but my friend asked my dad, 'Aren't your proud of Jimmy now that he's a successful actor?' And my dad was like, 'No, not really. I wish he was a scientist.' I guess scientist is more noble in the Asian culture.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don't even know what stand-up is.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

Whatever ethnicity you are, yes, absolutely you have to be proud of who you are man. I am really really proud to be Asian, I got to say.

I tried my hardest to be the opposite of a stereotypical Asian student.

Certain stories, like my mom leaving when I was 15-years-old to go back to China because she didn't quite assimilate like we did, that was a moment that was very sad in my life.

My dad played my dad in 'Patriots Day' and that's why he thinks that's a good movie.

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

When I came to America, it was Dave Chappelle and a lot of comedians on ComicView. That was my first exposure to stand up comedy, actually.

I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my hobbies.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians.''

To get noticed you need to work a lot and have a bit of luck. And I'm here to say that it's possible.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

My job is to go into that audition and be good enough of an Asian actor - or an actor in general - to land that role so they don't have to go out and hire a white guy. My job is to make sure I capitalize on these opportunities that other people created.

Nico Santos I've known from Bay Area stand-up, and he lives right by me so we hang out all the time.

I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.

But I try to play everything very authentically, even if it is an accented immigrant, Jian Yang, that I play on 'Silicon Valley.'

When I was graduating college with an economics degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was kind of scared. So I was just trying everything.

I just want to keep working and have a roof over my head.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

One of the hard things coming from an immigrant family - or any family that doesn't believe in the arts - is that you have to disappoint your parents. That's hard for people to do if you're a good kid.

I'm a big Clippers fan. I have season tickets to the Clippers. That's the only team I really root for in any sport.