Quotes from Timbaland

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

I consider myself a composer.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

My first love is producing.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

Don't get in my personal life.

I'm not a rapper.

I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.

It hurts when people put you down.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.