The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.
I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.
I don't have beef with nobody.
My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.
I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.
Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.
I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.
I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.
It hurts when people put you down.
I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'
I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'
I'm a musical genius.
I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.
I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.
I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.
I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.
I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.
I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.
An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.
I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.
