One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.

I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.

Beyoncé don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and young and exciteful and a great video.

She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.

I don't like when everything sounds the same.

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.