Damon Dash

“How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'”

“I grew up in a lot of different places. I always saw the bigger picture. I was around rich kids with country houses and private jets. No disrespect to those people, but I never thought they...”

“If you remember 'The Best of Both Worlds,' you don't see my name on that... I never wanted no part of that.”

“There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.”

“My favorite record was the one I produced with Clark Kent.”

“I'm not a complainer.”

“My delivery can be intense, but it's intense because I need to be heard. I know that people don't usually listen, as it relates to constructive criticism, without getting offended. So, I spe...”

“I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care...”

“I have been diabetic since I was young.”

“The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that we...”

“I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just unde...”

“Every little thing I've done as an adult and as a young adult, I've done diabetic.”

“A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.”

“Just cause you don't agree with a man, 'cause you're black, don't mean you gotta fight, argue. You just have a different perspective.”

“Everyone I put in business, I must've taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven't done right by me, but it's all gravy.”

“My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.”

“Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I s...”

“I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logicall...”

“I'm proud of Jay Z's success and Kanye's success. Inside, I feel like I had something to do with their success... I don't have anything but positive things to say.”

“Freedom is priceless.”