Swizz Beatz Quotes

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

I'm a very creative person, and you know when I hooked up with Benny Boom, I said I want it to be a different kind of video. I want it to be crisp, and I want it to relate, [and] not to be so far over people's heads. And that's when we came up with the p-t-d-d-d-d-d (camera flashes.) You know with the picture changing, and that's it.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Ma-a-a-n-I'm very excited to put my heart into somethin' that's 100% Swizz Beatz. I usually work behind the scenes, and I did that for 10 years, and now I'm ready for the forefront ... and [to] really get the legacy moving to another level.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

I didn't go to prom - I DJ'd all my proms.

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

It's all positive energy from me, man.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.