Quotes from Scott Storch

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the best poet, and I feel like Jay Z is all of the above. Then Rick Ross is just, every line he spits is just perfect, and he's one of my favorite MCs of all time.

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

My father didn't believe in my music. I don't blame him.

I never went out. I was not the guy at the club. I was almost scared of going to the club. All of a sudden, I found myself working with certain artists from L.A. and hanging out in L.A. and being introduced to a whole new lifestyle... and getting in trouble with them.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

I've never been to Canada in my life.

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

You can't count me out.

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.

I'm crossing the EDM barrier.

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

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

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

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

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

When I first heard 'Let Me Love You,' I knew immediately it was going to be a hit. I believed in it and I had to literally force it down the throats of his record label, who weren't believers at first.

Because I am white, I feel like certain opportunities were thrown to me through all of the people from the white community who prey on hip-hop culture.

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.

I spend six to seven days a week in the studio making records. I don't have time to go do a lot of things that you have to play the political game to get recognition with the Grammy crew.

As soon as 'Still D.R.E.' starts playing, you know what it is because of the melody. Most of the world's biggest records are less chord-driven. They have that instantly recognizable sound.

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.'