I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.