Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.

You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.

I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.

Beyoncé don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and young and exciteful and a great video.

She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

I don't like when everything sounds the same.

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