63 Quotes by Madlib

I'm constantly buying records.

My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.

Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.

You have to work how you work.

I'm usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.

Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.

People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.

I don't like drama in my life, but I like reading about it.

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.