I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.

I'm trying to go to places where people wouldn't normally, to try to get some new fans.

The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"

All the carbon copies, the stuff that the industry puts together, it's not selling if you pay attention and look at the charts. The stuff that they put together, these hits that just go out, it doesn't sell. It doesn't have a core fan base of fans that dedicatedly watch their life. It's just a song, another song, another hit song, a one-hit wonder. It doesn't sell. It doesn't last.