Timbaland

Timbaland: Your health is more important than everything else. I fly private so I can stick to one aircraft rather than have to sit with a bunch of people coughing and sneezing - that way I know what I'm dealing with. But you can't get better if you don't rest, and I've been going constantly, non-stop.

Timbaland: (about singer Aaliyah's death) She was like blood, and I lost blood. She was a brilliant person.

Timbaland: I'm focused. The labels done ate off the fat of the land. I see there is this whole big land that ain't been touched, and I gotta grab all the tomatoes.

Timbaland: All my artists will have the best of Tim. They'll get A-quality.

Timbaland: Justin [Timberlake] came to me and said, 'Can you do four or five [songs]?' And me and Justin had a chemistry when we worked together.

Timbaland: I make artists and get the profit.

Timbaland: I wanna be selective-very selective. Right now hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

Timbaland: I do albums. That's what I get a kick out of, making a whole project complete and selling the whole project for what it is.

Timbaland: It don't benefit me doing just a record. I'm used to getting a number one record, that ain't nothing.

Timbaland: All the other stuff out there ain't creative. It's just a bunch of lollygags.

Timbaland: Hip-hop is the same ol', same ol'. I can do a beat and keep doing it, but it's not the same.

Timbaland: I'm a real producer and somebody need to tell them they can't do it like I can.

Timbaland: My mission is to take over top-40 radio and reach all types of people.

Timbaland: When you become the best like me, you never fall off, you just lean back.

Timbaland: I don't never fall off. I just relax like a vampire in the coffin. When I wake up, you better be prepared, because somebody is going to get bit on the neck. Next thing you know, I have a slew of vampires running around.