SCOTT STORCH

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight, $250,000 for overseas. Yeah, that's an expensive habit.

I would see musicians performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and I knew that at the very worst I could do that.

I don't ever want to be considered some vanilla sherbet kinda guy.

Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get that stamp of approval and be down.

If people are given the right circumstances and the right track and the right melody, it's about the conviction. It's not necessarily about being a God-given virtuoso.

I'm not the guy trying to be all up in the videos and be a celebrity. I feel like I'm going to lose a certain amount of my privacy if I do that.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

People don't go to the record store anymore. It's crazy. The culture used to be so much stronger. People would go and support you, and go pick up the album. Not just for the music, but for the liner notes, for the artwork, just for the whole thing and to have it, and be able to say, 'I have this album.'

It's rare when you stumble upon this amazing melody. We'd love to make a 'Let Me Love You' every time we go into the studio, but it's definitely a special one.

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

I live in the studio and I'm inspired.

Me and Dr. Dre didn't speak for a while because I was going through my problems.

Certain people, you just don't want to be around them.

I think most I regret the way I treated Dr. Dre after he so graciously opened the doors to his kingdom to me.

I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.

Every time I hit it with Big Boi, we always have good love. I was a huge fan of the 'Shutterbugg' record he did.

You can call me a beat-maker, but I'm a record producer.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

You can't count me out.

I've been around a lot of greats I seen in this industry that have problems, but the comeback can be that much greater.

You've got to continue to be patient and get all your ducks in a row in order to make a success within this business. It's not an easy thing to get into. It takes years and years and years.

Shyne's my man. I've been talking to him and I was talking to him all through his prison sentence. He's always remained a loyal person to me.

Music has changed, but there will always be a demand for amazing music.

I had a long run for, like, probably 10 years with no vacation.