I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.
Mustard
I feel like having a son made me go harder and work harder. And now that I got a daughter, it's the same grind, staying focused on what I have to do for them.
I think that you're only going to get better if you take time to better yourself, not because someone says you should get better.
Being the new guy, you're gonna dress your best every day. When you're the cool guy, you gonna be like, 'Ah, I'm the cool guy anyway. I don't need to dress like that.'
I'm into having a good time and showing people you can have fun. Because for a long time, the West Coast, it wasn't about having fun. It was about gang banging; it just wasn't fun no more. So now I'm bringing fun back.
There's male groupies - guys that wanna stand next to you to get to the girls. A male groupie is the worst.
If I ever do meet John Mayer and we end up in the studio, hopefully he'll bring the guitar, and I'll make a beat to it or something.
I'm just doing all type of music that I like. I'm not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don't have to worry about that.
I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.
I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.
My uncle is just, like, always pushing me to be better, be a man, and showing me the ropes of the game.
I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.
Everybody likes good music, so when you're just playing good music and encouraging everybody to have fun, they'll have fun.
I feel like me and YG are the closest to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg that people are gonna get.
I like working with new artists.
Don't let this music industry or any industry come between friendship. Just stay focused on your goals.
You can't pick a fight with anyone doing something with your sound.
My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard.
You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having a lot of hit records at one time.
I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.
I know that everything comes to an end. Everything is a phase.
Skrillex is dope. He plays everything. It's amazing what he does.
I hear a lot of people saying my stuff sounds the same. When you're in my position, people come to you to give them the same sound in a different type of way.
My uncle, he's a big DJ out here in L.A. His name is DJ Tee; he's got a bar in Westchester.
When I got my first check from 'Rack City,' I was like, 'Damn, I can make this much money making beats?'
With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.
TeeFlii brought an edge to our camp. He's definitely going to be one of the greats.
Any man can take a sucker punch, but if you get slapped, it's other repercussions to that.
When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It's like, why are you pulling on me?
I don't know why people be in the club trying to be so cool. Standing around, trying to be cool. I don't get that. I just think everybody wanna be a star. That's why people don't dance.
Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.
'Who Do You Love' was kinda cool to make. I just made the beat; I was self-determined to make beats at the time.
I was taught to work for what I wanted to achieve in life.
Kids don't come with instruction manuals. It's interesting, but after you have your kids, it's a blessing. It's not as hard as people may think it is.
I think Justin Bieber should let me executive produce his album.
Whatever energy you put out is what you're gonna get.
I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.
You can't stop what God wants to happen.
I like dressing in designer clothes, and it's hard to buy them if you are overweight. And I got tired of, like, going in the stores, and then it was like I couldn't fit in anything. And overall, I wanted to be healthy.
The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.
I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It's not just EDM.
Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.
When we came out, they just labelled us 'ratchet music' cos we said 'ratchet' a lot. Ratchet means that's it's ghetto, but I would just call the music we're making just good music.
As long as you have a percentage of a song, that lasts forever. You have to study the business. Don't just be in it for money. You have to understand what you're in it for, then get your money.
Me and my little cousin DJ John John, we used to always be DJing in the house. We never took it seriously.
You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.
Everybody in the West Coast always like to hear YG, RJ, and Mustard together.
I thought I was going to be YG's DJ forever. I didn't plan on producing; I just picked up producing and got good at it.
I'm not afraid of anything.
I could do beats with a million sounds, and I could do beats with two sounds. Which one is going to make the most sense, and which one is going to sell the most records? Most of the time, it's the simplicity.
