At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."