A biography for Timbalandhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.”
“I'm not a rapper.”
“The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.”
“When I first met Aaliyah - it time for the world to hear this, I'm gonna give a little secret - I was in love with her.”
“I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.”
“My first love is producing.”
“I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.”
“My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.”
“I don't have beef with nobody.”
“Don't get in my personal life.”
“Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.”
“It hurts when people put you down.”
“I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.”
“I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.”
“I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.”
“I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.”
“I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.”
“I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.”
“It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.”
“I try to be as normal as I can.”