I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

All I do is make music.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I respect Soulja Boy.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I’ve been known to preach.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I can move any crowd.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn’t, so in the end they just released it themselves.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I write all my sermons.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.