I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.
People send me records, and if don't like them, I won't do them; I don't care how much money you offer.
When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.
I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.
Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.
I let my team pick what order the records go. I don't pick my own records. I'm a fan of my music regardless so you have to think outside of the box.
There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.
I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.
