Mike Will Made It

“I don't sleep.”

“Future was always the person to knock out multiple bangers in one night.”

“No teacher ever skipped the student process... if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.”

“Matter fact, my girl complains about how much I'm in the studio working. But she sees the results as they roll out.”

“It's like I have three different brains.”

“I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.”

“Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.”

“I don't spend a bunch of money on jewelry or sunglasses, because I lose them a lot.”

“2 Chainz and I have a history. It's always an honor and pleasure working with him, because it seems like everything we do is dope. We just have that organic chemistry.”

“I feel like when I came in the game, I was more focused on like, 'yo how many times can I get on the radio?'”

“Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.”

“I love the grind. Gucci taught me to never stop working.”

“Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.”

“I wanted 'Formation' to be a woman empowerment song, but Beyonce made it into a culture empowerment song.”

“A Red camera is the best. When I started shooting videos, I had to pay ten thousand dollars just to rent one. I was like, 'I do all these music videos, and I still don't own a Red camera?' So I spent about a hundred thousand dollars to buy one. My own bread. Boom!”

“I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.”

“I like making dope music.”

“We Can't Stop' was the first song we did. We didn't try to reach and be too 'hood:' It's hip-hop-influenced, but Miley's a pop singer, and she's going to have country in there.”

“With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.”

“We Can't Stop' has so many different vibes to it. She sounds country; the beat has these live, knocking drums; and then it has these pop melodies. It's a feel-good record.”