“I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by th...” — Timbaland Quote

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'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

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.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.