Timbaland: "I'm a musical genius."

Timbaland: "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."

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

Timbaland: "I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy."

Timbaland: "I have ideas whirring around my head all the time."

Timbaland: "My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do."

Timbaland: "I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music."

Timbaland: "Don't get in my personal life."

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

Timbaland: "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."

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

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

Timbaland: "I work out all the time. I love it."

Timbaland: "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."

Timbaland: "I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music."

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

Timbaland: "It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy."