I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.

There are a lot of people who have used the same samples I've used, but there's no way they flipped it the way I did. So, when I put my version out, people completely forgot that this [other] person did it. Everyone can have the same product, but it's more about the way you present it and put it together.

What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for me to put out [rap beats]. But it's not going to happen. I've graduated from that.

I don't want my music to stay New York, I want it to be everywhere.

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

Nowadays, all the people who are major are just DJs. The lighting and all that makes the show - without all of that stuff, it's just a person behind a laptop. With me, though, it's an actual show.

I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.