Quotes from Dr. Dre

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

I'm a producer at heart. I like being in the control room and directing people. That's what I do. But I've gotten on the mic a few times in my career; people seem to like it, so I'll do it again here and there. But that's really not my thing.

There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to.

The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

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.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

It's always been difficult to make a good record.

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

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.

I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.