Dre: "Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut."

Dre: "I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something."

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

Dre: "I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers."

Dre: "I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album."

Dre: "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."

Dre: "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."

Dre: "The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS."

Dre: "When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration. Look at the quality of his work over so many years. He didn't even make his best record, 'Thriller,' until he was 50. That gives me something to look forward to. Nothing pulls you back into the studio more than the belief that your best record is still ahead."

Dre: "I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me."

Dre: "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."

Dre: "I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way."

Dre: "It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea."

Dre: "Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down."

Dre: "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."

Dre: "Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started."

Dre: "It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.'"

Dre: "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."

Dre: "Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work."