J Dilla

“I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'”

“There'd be days when I wouldn't eat at all because I'd be in the basement working all day.”

“One of my favourite Donald Byrd tracks is 'Think Twice,' and I didn't want to sample it. I've always enjoyed when other people have sampled it, so I wanted to instead of making a beat with it or something like that, or freak the beat of whatever. I wanted to just recreate it in my own way, like how I heard it.”

“It's family first, and then everything else.”

“No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.”

“Detroit is a hard city.”

“What happened was that the doctor told me that I'd ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.”