I wanted 'Formation' to be a woman empowerment song, but Beyonce made it into a culture empowerment song.

I really like coming across all types of different music, and hearing new things.

If you put your time and energy into developing creatively, that's where you'll go.

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

I like blessing others around me. When you work hard, it's just dope to give back to the people around you.

I didn't have no college friends. All the artists the college folks were listening to were my homies. I was leaving class, literally, to record with them.

You can't please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you're gonna have your fans.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

I feel like soccer brings another dynamic to the city, it makes it more eclectic... I feel like it opens doors for people who grew up playing soccer here their whole life. We've got some rings on the way, trophies on the way, and we're gonna win, and we're gonna stand behind Atlanta United just like we stand behind everything else out of Atlanta.

This is the city of the underdog champion, so they want to see the next person out of their city blowing up and making I feel like, man, Atlanta's a big city, but it's so small.

Kanye is one of my favorite producers and artists.

I love Atlanta.

Future is my brother. He has no idea how big what he does is.

When I tried to send him beats in 2010, he told me I was too expensive for him. I told Future we had to work together, that it would be beneficial for both of us, that we didn't have to worry about the money.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

I want to make sure that I sign dope artists, old and new, just to make sure that we come up with something new and creative.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

Future was always the person to knock out multiple bangers in one night.

I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.

I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.

I'm just trying to bring the sound from Atlanta over to the mainstream radio in a way that everybody can enjoy.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.

Matter fact, my girl complains about how much I'm in the studio working. But she sees the results as they roll out.

The 'trap' sound is a sound from the city. We've always liked music with bass. We've always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We've always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.

I'm creative so I'm always gonna create.

I used to listen to songs on the radio and play that junk back on that little keyboard.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, 'Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.'

If you're a super-producer, you can produce whatever you want to produce. That's where I'm at.

I first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

With Yo Gotti 'Rack It Up,' that was him hitting me like, bro, I'm about to put out a single next month, I want you to produce it.

A lot of people slept on Rae Sremmurd.

It doesn't matter if it's platinum or 10-times platinum - it's a certification that lets me know that I'm not wasting my time in the studio. That being said, I don't let those certifications run my life.

If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.

I'm not really the type that likes to put out a project just to say I've put it out - I like to make them count.

Yeah, I co-directed '23.' Yeah, the whole concept of the video... Even with that video, I feel like it's not a video that you can get sick of. You can always go back and watch that and it's fresh.

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

I don't want to be on the mic, man. I want to stay producing.

Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.

Miley Cyrus is the new Madonna.

When you're on top, you're going to get flack for anything.

Tupac Back' was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

I used to grind. I be telling people, you don't grind, you don't sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.

I don't sleep.

I have a blue 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT, the first car I ever bought. I didn't want it to just be a regular Challenger. I wanted it to be different. So I sent it out to Richard Petty's garage in North Carolina, completely tricked it out - a one-of-a-kind built for me and we changed the name of it from 'Challenger' to 'Champion.'

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

If I look forward to bigger fights, than the biggest fight for me is Manny Pacquiao.

My kids are four years apart. They're constantly fighting, hitting each other, grabbing the toy away from the other.

All of the great fighters have had losses but are still considered among the greatest ever. The undefeated record is not as important to me as facing the toughest challenges out there.

I'm not afraid to step up and take challenges.