To stay in the darkness is very easy, let's do a couple of things that we know is going to make us smile. Call a loved one, check on somebody, surprise somebody, call somebody just to joke around, make yourself come up out of this darkness because the darkness is only what you make it.

Swizz Beatz

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

life-changing inspire art

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings. by Swizz Beatz

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.

invest-in-yourself surroundings

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.

winning needs thinking

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.

hearing car hip-hop

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.

heart years moving

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the indi... by Swizz Beatz

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

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

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

haircuts worst done

I want to help promote Korean music around the world. by Swizz Beatz

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

want helping world

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because... by Swizz Beatz

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

artwork know-how pieces

Music is the universal language. by Swizz Beatz

Music is the universal language.

hip-hop music art

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.

cameras creative people

I think K-Pop is a type of expression. by Swizz Beatz

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

type expression thinking

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

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

creativity people thinking

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.

jeans growing-up hip-hop

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.

bridges together ideas

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.

crazy artist names

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.

creation clubs 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.

barbers drawing names

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

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

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

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

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