Scott Storch

“I'm always making tracks. I find that when you make tons of tracks, you stumble upon genius. You can't always turn the drum machine on and right away there's a hot track. Sometimes you luck out. But it can take a lot of time between thinking about the artist, listening to music for inspiration or going to clubs.”

“As soon as 'Still D.R.E.' starts playing, you know what it is because of the melody. Most of the world's biggest records are less chord-driven. They have that instantly recognizable sound.”

“Ne-Yo and I are great friends and we've worked on a bunch of stuff together back in the day.”

“I'm from New York. I was born in Long Island.”

“I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.”

“Me and Dr. Dre didn't speak for a while because I was going through my problems.”

“Every time I hit it with Big Boi, we always have good love. I was a huge fan of the 'Shutterbugg' record he did.”

“As a kid, I used to sit there and figure out how to play everybody's song, and through learning all those songs I learned how to put chords together, and it evolved till I could say, 'Hey, I just wrote that.'”

“When I first heard 'Let Me Love You,' I knew immediately it was going to be a hit. I believed in it and I had to literally force it down the throats of his record label, who weren't believers at first.”

“I would see musicians performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and I knew that at the very worst I could do that.”

“I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.”

“There's certain artists who are loyal and certain ones don't really care and don't give you the opportunity to follow through with them again. I'm insulted by a lot of the artists I delivered hits to.”

“Let Me Love You' is one of my favorite records from my catalogue. It's one of those songs that just happened magically.”

“I had a long run for, like, probably 10 years with no vacation.”

“I would always be going from L.A. to Miami to New York, to Russia, St-Tropez. Costs about $50,000 for a domestic flight, $250,000 for overseas. Yeah, that's an expensive habit.”

“It's not always about working with the hottest artist. I sometimes go for challenges although people look at me strangely like, 'Why are you doing that?!' However, with a risk sometimes comes a huge reward. It's about having the vision to be able to turn a challenge into something, and then you win the Heisman.”

“Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get that stamp of approval and be down.”

“Neo soul, hip-hop jazz, we started that.”

“I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.”

“You've got to continue to be patient and get all your ducks in a row in order to make a success within this business. It's not an easy thing to get into. It takes years and years and years.”