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.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

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.

It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.