Quotes from Madlib

I do it for myself and for like-minded people. Half the time I don't know why I make what I do. I'd do this if no one was listening. I'm stuck. I've got the curse.

I'm a hermit, people rarely see me.

My whole thing is that I make music regardless. Regardless of everything around me, I'll always make music.

People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.

If I'm really hyped to do something, I can do most of an album in a day.

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.

I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.

Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.

The iPad is the greatest thing as far as kids.

I search for records that I've found on YouTube. If I can't get the record it doesn't matter to me, I'll bump the YouTube rip.

I'm a laid back dude, I don't really get excited.

I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.

It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.

I get bored with music so I try to listen to things in different types of genre to see what's possible.

I'm usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.

I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.

I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.

I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.

The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.

I'm a positive dude.

Some people think I'm crazy, but I'm just a normal dude that loves music.

Embryo is one of my favorite groups ever.