Swizz Beatz quotes:

When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

Music is the universal language.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

Ma-a-a-n-I'm very excited to put my heart into somethin' that's 100% Swizz Beatz. I usually work behind the scenes, and I did that for 10 years, and now I'm ready for the forefront... and [to] really get the legacy moving to another level.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.

I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

It's all positive energy from me, man.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.

My worst haircuts have been the ones where I've done my own.

I didn't go to prom - I DJ'd all my proms.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

I'm a very creative person, and you know when I hooked up with Benny Boom, I said I want it to be a different kind of video. I want it to be crisp, and I want it to relate, [and] not to be so far over people's heads. And that's when we came up with the p-t-d-d-d-d-d (camera flashes.) You know with the picture changing, and that's it.