I actually care about my shows.

It's just dumb: how you can have the number 1 record in Los Angeles and not have the number 1 record in New York? It's crazy.

I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

Diplo is one of my homies.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

What I would tell young producers is if there is someone out there who can help you, then go work with that person.

Everybody knows YG is a turnt up dude that can't nobody control.

I started DJing when I was, like, 11.

I never want to get stuck in the box.

Don't just be a mystery to your kids. You need your kids to know you and know they can call you whenever they need you.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

My cousin went to jail, and I was like, 'I don't wanna spend my life in jail.' So I just started DJing, and that was my out.

When Drake sings, it makes everybody feel like they can sing. Not saying he's a bad singer - he's a good singer - but it just makes everybody feel like, 'If Drake can sing, I can sing, too.'

I've always had an ear for rocking a party. Just knowing what people like.

I used to live with YG.

I'm trying to work with as many people as possible.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing.

'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.

I create my music so you can go to the club and have fun.

I don't want to be known for only making ratchet music.

Dark music always works in a club.

My goal is to be the Jay Z of DJing.

I just want people to hear my music and feel good, go to the club, dance, have fun, and get home safe... none of that gang-banging stuff.

You never know with me. I change my mind like I change my job. And I do that very often.

Anytime you throw claps back to back on a song, it makes everybody want to get up and have fun. It's a fun sound.

Sometimes you can do a million songs, and if they're not good, you're just wasting your time.

You've got to change with time.

I like everything to happen organically.

When you're in this music thing, and you got friends involved in this, of course ya'll gonna have disagreements, and that's gon' be the outcome: we gon' fight each other.

If I'm DJing, and you stop me and take a picture? That's annoying.

I'm getting too much money to be fighting people.

No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.

I had to leave the music industry behind for a minute to figure out what made me feel home again.

When I moved back home, I took the initiative to involve my entire family in my career because I didn't find that anyone else was as passionate and thorough.

When you have a live performance, you're going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.

Broadway really inspired me to want to act.

The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep, is real simple, and sometimes we think or we're trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it's the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy.

I was captain of the pom-pom team, which was still dance, but we were athletes. We trained on the track and did workouts every single day after school.

I definitely learned that when I want something done, I'm very tunnel-visioned out. I don't come out of the house. I beat myself up. I don't eat. I don't sleep until it's done, especially if I have a deadline in mind.

I'm very patient with life.

Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I don't mind that.

It's a dangerous world out there when it comes to relationships. And I believe we attract what we are. So I want to work on being my best self so I can attract the same.

Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.

I grew up with brothers in real life.

I think actors, athletes, and anyone who's a public speaker is very amazing or fascinating to me.

I'm very reserved when I get off stage.

I'm O.K. having a comfortable life. I don't have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.