I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.