Damon Dash

I love music, but the people in the music don't wanna work. ”

Everything that scared me is losing people I love, and everyone that I really love, as it relates to females, I've lost. So what it's made me be is the animal that I am because I don't want to sit down and think about the things that are hurting me, but, you know. ”

I never really considered myself super hip-hop, ever in life. I don't think anything that I've done reflects that. ”

Look at my life. I ain't got nothing to be mad about. ”

I monetized my life so I never do anything that I don't like or that I'm not participating in 100 percent. ”

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children. ”

I don't wanna be yelling all my life. How loud did I have to yell to say that Jay-Z was the man and the best rapper of all time? ”

I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom. ”

You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say. ”

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision. ”